Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Decline and fall

Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Decline and fall: "At Harper's, Scott Horton interviews Bruce Ackerman, a Yale law professor who believes the American presidency has been transformed into a potentially dangerous vehicle for political extremism and lawlessness. In Ackerman's book, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, Horton says,  'he suggests some innovative constitutional remedies to address the situation. Here are two of Horton's six questions and Ackerman's answers:"