Great column as always. The US has never before had a president who has no respect or regard for the constitution or the due process of law. Trump has repeatedly used executive orders that were both unlawful and unconstitutional to promote measures that the racists and homophobic in his base found appealing. Trump is creating enormous divisions in American society. His economic and trade policies, not yet fully enacted, mimic those that created the great depression in the 1930s. We all have to hope that America's institutions are strong enough to withstand the often wildly inappropriate impulses of a president who does not value the great traditions of democracy in the United States.