Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America:
For my part, I am persuaded that in all governments, whatever their nature may be, servility will cower to force, and adulation will follow power. The only means to prevent men from degrading themselves is to invest no one with that unlimited authority which is the sure method of debasing them. (Quoted in Zbigniew Janowski, Homo Americanus, p. 15)
No man, and no group of men. We need checks and balances all up and down the line.
And yes the people are ovine and servile and will cower to power. That has been amply demonstrated of late by the masses' mindless donning of useless masks. Don we now our fey apparel! Let us signal our specious virtue and adherence to the party line of Lord Fauci and his minions. And when the party line shifts, we shift with it!
The other day I espied a lady, driving alone, windows rolled up, wearing a big black mask. But I was in a charitable mood. I thought to myself, "Well, maybe she just left a doctor's office where entrance required the fashion accessory in question, and she forgot to take it off." But then I waxed rather less charitable. "Is she so oblivious to the mechanics of respiration that she would leave that rag around her face when alone?"
As for Dr. Fauci, RFK Jr. has his number. You all should read his The Real Anthony Fauci. Look it up. Buy it. Study it. The author's an outlier, a decent Dem, like Tulsi Gabbard, who used to be a Dem but is not now. She’s quite the political phenomenon: calm, personable, very intelligent, courageous and — she talks sense!