From Capt. Fogg at Human Voices:
Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. in No Exit, (Huis clos) and so is Democracy as I was reminded today in the New Yorker. A third of Americans can’t name one branch of government and examples of the massive failure of education to integrate the population into the process are more than abundant.
Perhaps it’s my prejudice speaking but I would guess, in the absence of further data, that this proportion is even higher among supporters of Donald Trump, many of whom seem to think that a president can do almost anything he wants, from “fixing the schools” to changing the ties in the affairs of men and rebuilding the world of the 1950’s within our walled borders. All of course without help or hindrance from the legislature or the Judicial Branch.