I wasn't speaking about any specific people, DougR. I was saying that the understanding I have is that the founding fathers, in their wisdom, created constitutional protections and separations of power because they knew that people often misuse power in order to preserve power. It seems to me that to compromise or weaken those protections invites the possibility that someone now, or in the future, will misuse power for the purpose of preserving power.

In other words, DougR, why don't you trust the wisdom of the founding fathers when they set us up with those protections?