Either our country's system of checks and balances works, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, we need to replace it anyway.

(I realize how flippant this sounds in the short term, but in the long term, it's right)

If it's really as trivial as you say to turn us into a dictatorship, ...

One can only hope that he subsides his autocratic ambitions or that there are still some hurdles left in place that prevent him from becoming the American Recep Tayyip Erdogan.