The view that there's a crisis is strictly partisan. I don't like Trump, didn't vote for him and would rather move to a place with a nice tropical climate like Rochester, NY, before voting for him.
Nonetheless, I don't see the crisis. A crisis is of short-term duration. Congress hasn't finalized the electors' decision, and the "crisis" will be during that session in chambers. After that, the representatives running the Republic will have spoken, and will still retain a lot of control over the Republic. There's that whole checks-and-balances sort of rot that they tried to get us to accept in middle school. Not that many of us believe it--we want a strong leader that gets things done.
"Viva il duce" is their slogan. Perhaps in Latin, vivat dux, is better. There's always the German equivalent, "Heil, mein fuehrer." Pays to remember in this context that "heil" is related to "healthy" and "hale."
Still, all the doom-and-gloom about how horrible the policies he's enacted already is out of place, if only because he's not enacted any policies yet. Just as Obama found that even harshly (D) policies he wanted enacted didn't always get a friendly reaction from the (D) Congress, so the Trumpster will find that his policies (if he actually has any) won't always receive a friendly reaction from the (R) Congress. I don't see him rounding up legislators and suspending habeas corpus any time soon. (As a Marylander by birth, the referent to that allusion is all too apparent, and I'd note that when the Republican president who did that was rebuked by the court nobody bothered to impeach him. Instead, he's sort of a hero for many. Viva il duce.)
It's also worth pointing out that united Executive and 2x chambers of Congress typically enjoy a very short duration. The American public likes slow change, when it's change they like. They vote in gridlock because each side is anxious, eager, hankering after fast change. Think of a divided government as a choke-chain on a dog. If we're a single country with a "we the people", and that's less and less true each year as more and more say that "we the people" is entirely us and not at all them, that's to be expected, and when it's our dog in power we object strenuously to the use of the choke-chain, however we praise its efficacy when it's choking the other side's bastard. But the representatives in charge of our representation should represent what it's supposed to be representing, the representees, as it were. Anything less is a nice will-to-power with either rule by the elite or rule by the proletariat (with a gnat's wing of difference between the two pox-ridden houses), replete with damn-the-democracy-full-speed-ahead talk. Many Republicans are not republican; many Democrats are not democratic.
Those who like will-to-power and damn-the-democracy, right and left, get highly impatient and frustrated when thwarted. They miss the big picture. The Republic will continue until the populace has lost enough faith in the institutions that they've come to rely on and decide that some short-term fix for short-term gains that favors one class or party (sensu lato) over the other is not only preferable but should be and is implemented. Both sides are hell-bent in advancing that time.
I wish they'd stop.
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