Bob Schwartz

If Trump is trying to break America, he is doing a good job.

Republicans in Congress could try to stop him. They haven’t and there is no indication they will.

Trump’s reason for breaking America is, appropriately for him, simple and primal. He is the boss and would be boss of a broken America, so he could reshape and rebuild it any way he wanted, to the advantage of himself and his friends.

Republicans in Congress are in part scared of losing their jobs and their power, such as it is. But many of them may also believe that current America is just too far gone for conventional reformation. It is, they believe, in need of a total tear down and new construction—with Trump, his circle and his party as architects.

Far-fetched? If that once had any meaning in imagining American governance, it doesn’t right now.