The American people (and the people of Canada) need to have the best people as their leaders. 

What they have is a dysfunctional president, whose only virtue may be that he hires sensible people to work for him, and a party controlling the legislature that is ideologically tied to the idea that the problems of the majorities of white Americans are due to unfair trade practices by its trading partners, parasitic inner city minorities and illegal immigrants.

Regardless what the author thinks this is a recipe for eventual disaster.