I.E., Angelo Codevilla.
The American problem has nothing to do with personalities, or even, fundamentally, with politics. This all is a cultural-sociological situation, which has many ramifications, just one of them political.
Codevilla’s classic 2010 essay -
https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=4725
Good essay—kind of a milder version of Sam Francis and James Burnham.
Their view (part of the argument of your linked article) is that power is what matters.
You either have it or you don’t.
If you have it your ideas matter—if you do not have power then your ideas mean nothing.
What none of them address is a homo sapiens problem—which is that high performing sociopaths rise to the top of all large organizations.
That is how it has been since the days of the Pharaohs—with rare exceptions.
One of those exceptions was the Founding Fathers—and they tried to protect us from the sociopaths among us that they knew would rise and seek to rule.
It worked for a while—but now we are degenerating into the natural state for homo sapiens—ruled by evil vicious liars who live and breathe conflict of interest and identity of interest and stomp on everybody else.