In the span of just a few years, our belief in the stability of our political system has been shaken to the core by a president seeking to expand his powers beyond the limits imposed by our constitution. We have seen him misuse his powers to breach the independence of our judicial system, attack our freedom of expression, for flagrant nepotism and for undermining our faith in our voting system with persistent false claims of voting fraud. Finally, refusing to acknowledge election defeat, our outgoing president encouraged a mob of his followers to storm our Capitol attempting to violently overthrow …
