Jennifer, here is what I think as an observer to the political scene for more than 3 decades. First of all who i am? I am a Palestinian, an arab, a muslim. This is important, very important. Why? Because all the east west politics hovers around me. America is not isolated. Proof! Republicans and jesus. Jesus was a palestinian-israelite... So there is a relationship between american politics and the east. It is pivotal. Not in the periphery or indirectly. If you dismiss this notion, the political scene in USA will never be fathomed. Never. Trust me. Not accentricity .
Also, me, an expert on dictatorships. We know them from the first word they utter. We have been living with dictatorships as long as we have lived. And yes. USA is strongly going into the abyss of dictatorship. What is happening in the WH is not a circumstance. It is a major shift and change in the core. Irreversible.
My advice to fellow Americans and i am one of them, is to look at the issue as a whole not as dems and reps. Why? Trump represents something new. He circumvented the political strata into the White House. Meaning, politicians are no longer needed by capital to inter the WH. Now capital is going there directly. In other words, it is a structural coup on the system. But in a nation- continent that wont go easy. It will fracture a 250 years old system. That is my assessment, while i am watching the biggest game in this era.
