I think this is a very one sided piece.  The media, opposition politicians and their followers have an obligation to preserve the dignity of office too.

Through the microscope be subject all those who seek office to ridicule and abuse.  We pay them very poorly, we criticize then at every turn,  we begrudge them juice from a hotel fridge, spending hundreds of times the amount the juice cost ruminating over it.

The result is that the best don't run.  I have worked in the US too and in Britain and can say that the civil service, or non elected service if you prefer, carries more status and draws better candidates. 

If the piece is another thin-veiled attack on Trump, fine, leave it. But if this professor is truly an agent of change, perhaps a second article about reverence and respect for those who serve is in order too.

I know it is too much to ask to consider remunerative side of the slate.