Nicely put. Geo. Washington's Farewell Address should be read to accompany this. Here it is in GWs own words. It is what our forbears made into what we became and can hopefully regain. Our forbears clearly understood that, as Plato remarked, inevitably democracies fail into autocracies (not other democracies). Read GW's address if you don't believe me:

https://medium.com/liecatcher/george-washingtons-case-for-convicting-donald-trump-6fa453652bbd