>>>Future historians will think he was either insane or eeevil.<<<
Agreed - on the order of our era’s Nero or Caligula. Sadly, the implication from that metaphor is that the next step is having the Praetorian Guard select the emperor. But that’s just a metaphor... the future is more unpredictable than that.
Does anyone think that the problem in, say, Michigan, is too little government??