I appreciate the detailed response and I think we probably agree on more than you realize. I am not someone who thinks we need to get Trump out at all costs. I do believe he needs to go, but through legal means that are there for it to be done. Simpy put, not the all costs you seem to be willing to allow Trump to carry out what you deem necessary.

I didn't feel the need to quote what you wrote, but my biggest beef is with your feeling that Trump is somehow "ruining the the machine" and "exposing the reasons people in government become so wealthy", . To be absolutely clear, that is simply not the case. He is specifically attacking Democrats and on the extreme rare occasion, a Republican that says bad things about him. If there was even a remote truth to those feelings, he would be attacking Republicans with the same ruthlessness he does Democrats. He is lock and step with Fox News. That's not ruining the machine. That's running the machine from an incredibly partisan position. You said yourself, you think some Pubs are just as corrupt as Dems. Why doesn't Trump see it that way?

ETA: again, if you want to see how someone takes on BOTH of the establishments and their "machines", look no further than the man you love to hate, Bernie Sanders. Trump ain't no Bernie when it comes to that. Not even on the same planet of equal opportunity "ruining".