« The president isn’t the country—he isn’t even the government, only the chief executive of one branch of one level of American government.
Trump cannot see that, because his anti-Americanism and his narcissism sit on the same foundation: the belief that the most important entity in the world is Donald J. Trump. »
— Kevin D. Williamson at The Dispatch.
A narcissist is the most dangerous sort of person to have in power. Most dictators are narcissistic to some degree. Those who think that they are the only persons who matter are not going to look after anybody else. That makes such people unfit to lead a democracy.
One problem in this country is that civics education is almost nonexistent. Many Americans simply don't understand how the system works. There's an oversimplified view of the president being the locus of all power.
People have fantasy views of presidential powers while giving little or no thought to things like state government.
So somebody like Donald Trump comes along and tells the more gullible masses "only I can fix things" and they foolishly believe he has the power to do so.
Democracy only really works if we're not too lazy to understand how it functions.
The president does have significant power under the current system though. That's exactly why they fear his election; why who is elected is a big deal in the first place and there's a lot of competition for it; because the presidency is the next "king" for four long years.
That's "democracy."
We can't eat our cake and have it.
