There are two possibilities with Obama, neither of which bodes well for his place in history. One is that he is the ultimate incompetent doofus, incapable of governing a dog park, much less our nation. The other is that he is the ultimate Manchurian Candidate. In either case, his actions have destroyed whatever leadership position our nation had in the world, and whatever unifying possibilities were available within our borders.
We will never be able to return to our previous glory. There are only two options available to us.
One is to follow the present path, which will lead to our destruction: Buchanan's actions resulted in a domestic war, but Obama's actions, left unstopped, will result in the end of our existence.
The other is for a Caesar to grab the reins and yank them in the opposite direction, for there are not enough truly free patriots to return the land to the republic that it once was.
That is what Trump claims he will do: he will Make America Great Again. The problem, I fear, is that in doing do he will be unable, perhaps even unwilling, to Make America America again. It is here where the Great Conservative Schism we are experiencing on FR and elsewhere comes in. Trump, at best, will fix America, and that indeed would be a great step back from the Obama-lemmings brink where we find ourselves now. But in doing so, he and/or his successors will become the Caesars, who will subsume the authority of the republic into themselves. Perhaps that is the best we can hope for now--but if it is, it is because of the fundamental destruction of America as America that Barack Obama has accomplished in his seven years in office, and for that he richly deserves the prize of being the worst inhabitant of the Presidency.
You have a very strong argument here. We already know the seen damage of BO's reign . . . but it may take years before we know the unseen damage.
Our only hope is that if Trump is a righteous Caesar, he will be like Augusto Pinochet, right some wrongs, leave the scene and allow the American sheeple to choose stupid again though, hopefully, it will not be the ObaMao level of stupid.