Perhaps the benefit of the Trump presidency will be the average American wakes up to how non-important the President is in of itself and that the important thing is the process of politics, or the unspoken norms that Trump is demolishing, or ... something more abstract than the position and whoever is the current inhabitant. That was sort of the point of the American Revolution and all the ideals America is supposed to embody. [i.e. the progressive libtard ones, not the regressive pseudo-conservative aka almost fascist ones Trump is a symbol of]

In those republics that role often fufils the role of the monarch, I think.