It's always difficult to know when confronted by astoundingly stupid odious vermin whether or not there are in fact any neurons firing, or merely a mechanical repetition of noises that in the past have elicited cheers from the dull-eyed drooling hordes that vote Republican reflexively in the same way a dog defecates when its bowels reach a certain level of fullness. Trump and his slithering Republican enablers are destroying the USA. Is it because they're all Russian assets? Well, most are but perhaps one or two are just mind-numbingly stupid. But their ability to destroy the USA is enabled by qualification-free representative democracy, a system where ignorant morons get to vote for ignorant morons. This is why we get Brexit, Trump, Modi, Erdogan, Putin. Orban, et al. They are symptoms - vile, repellent, odious symptoms, but symptoms nevertheless. The real blame lies in our clinging to a totally dysfunctional system of governance.