[thulldud]

The idea was that the government should be so limited in power that it doesn't matter how bad the exec is at any one time. The Founding Fathers knew better than to trust in the goodness of officials, so they built a system that limited both the harm a bad President can do, and the harm that great power can do in turn to the man who has it.

Now we have an imperial Presidency that can make a monster of anybody that takes the job. And not only the President, but also the myrmidons of the federal bureaucracies, who, although they individually have less power, their anonymity shields them more effectively from responsibility for it.

Great power is like a mind drug: it distorts reality for its user, and it is habit-forming. Not many can take it and resist the effects — usually only those who already have a great power of their own. Little people, empty suits and such, otoh, can be counted on to go bat-guano crazy with the first hit. Observe and learn.

[RipSawyer]

“Observe and learn.”
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Learn what? I agree with everything you said because I have said the same things myself more than once.