As if the people of the United States haven't been signing blank checks to the executive branch for decades, and then just flooring the accelerator after 9/11. Your inability to get past the sideshow face of Trump's administration seems to have caused you to completely forget about, say, the free reign the administration has over its drone assassination program? They literally drop bombs on the phone numbers that Palantir spits out. Or National Security Letters that basically give them the legal machinery to completely and wholly subjugate an entity in any way they wish, with rubber-stamp "judicial approval" from a secret court and zero recourse for the victim, including requiring the victim to lie for the government to cover up its crime? Don't let the bullshit with your favorite color make you lose sight of the absolute power "the slow machinations of the legal system" has been corrupted to allow.