So... it took years before we heard "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Within United States." from Jan 20 to Sep 10 we had a president that wasn't great? but he was mostly pseudopresidential in a sort of absent-Reagan kinda way. We knew he spent too long on vacation and we got the sense that he wasn't quite good enough to fill his daddy's shoes but when the towers came down, by damn he was the President. And we got DHS, and the PATRIOT act, and pallets of hundos vanishing into war zones. Because by damn he was the President and he knew how to act presidential. Now? I will give you even odds that should the shit hit the fan, McCain and Schumer and the rest of the grownups decide that they can more easily handle things their own bad selves, thanks. I don't care how badly you love your country and the democratic process there are a goodly number of senators, representatives, judges and bureaucrats that aren't going to let Steve Bannon play soldiers. Especially if it so much as hints at Russia.
I really hope so. It seems most reasonable that this administration will either implode, or at the very least be reigned in. But it also seemed most reasonable that he wouldn't have won the Presidency. He sure knows how to bring much of the US with him, and if there was cooperation with Russia, he's up for anything.
In the first case, tens of millions of reasonable people assumed that the system would work appropriately, as that's what we had been reassured of for months/years. In the second case, tens of millions of reasonable people have had the failure of the system amply demonstrated. The prevailing sentiment among establishment Democrats and Republicans alike is "this wasn't supposed to happen." That's hell on mandates. Under Bush, at least, it was "I guess this is a weird constitutional corner case." Remember: there are 318 million people in the United States. 63 million of them voted for Trump. Those that did are not well-represented in centers of commerce, governance or art - everyone wants to paint Trumpism as a populist uprising but the fact of the matter is, our electoral college favors the Hinterlands. The skew that brought him to office is the skew that has him excoriated in all popular media - the bulk of the country is not behind Donald Trump and don't let anyone tell you differently.