On that point: We do have a separation of powers, but we do not have three “coequal” branches of government. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Donald Trump has never grown out of moral nap time: He somehow made it from childishness to second childishness without an interval of genuine moral adulthood. (Here, the ghosts of Valley Forge shake their spectral fists and wonder why, after all, they suffered such an ordeal.) A short route to chaos, indeed.