Whether he knows it or not, Zachary Karabell articulates in a Politico op-ed what a lot of us reluctant Trump voters considered to be the single most-important objective of taking that gamble:

… judging from what is actually happening rather than by what is being said, the net effect of the first year of the Trump presidency has not been to augment the considerable powers of the president but to decrease them. Trump may have inherited an executive office at the height of its historical powers, but if he continues on the present path, he will leave office with those powers much diminished. And while the means will have been messy and unpleasant to witness, the result will be to restore a modicum of balance to the American republic and to a federal government that has seen an executive branch become far too powerful, to the detriment of our democracy and prosperity.

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We’re definitely on track for that outcome, although a key question is whether the lesson will be learned thoroughly enough by every currently sentient generation to prevent the inevitable snap back to a preference for an imperial presidency when our national elites like the person in office again.