Now perhaps, in the past, individual legislators might vote against their own financial self interest for moral or legal reasons. But back then people could afford to be moral or constitutional, they already had lots of money and could afford to be statesmanlike, and the voters were all folks just like them, or who believed they were just like them..

But today, I simply cannot visualize a Republican Congress voting in a way that might conceivably reconstitute Obamacare, the Paris Climate Agreement, The Iran Nuclear Treaty, a reasonable immigration law, a fair and progressive tax law, or any of a number of other policies that might cause big business some iota of profit. They will devise some Rube Goldberg legalism to justify and institutionalize whatever they want to do anyway.

I realized the jig was up when the Congress simply refused to hold hearings on a Presidential nominee to the Supreme Court until after the elections. America may have already been on the road to fascism for a long time, but that was the precise moment we goose-stepped across the border.