I still find it interesting the J6 committee never really focused in on the Willard Hotel.

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70. That is the question really.

1. The easy answer is the president who is elected every 4 years by a majority of electors from the states reflecting to the vote tallies* in their state which are determined by the popular vote of whichever set of voters the state's dominant party or tradition has a preference. In other words, sometimes a minority of the voters see their candidate serve.

2. The cabinet, appointed by the president to lead incredibly large and complex agencies, serve at the pleasure of the president. Their terms are thus limited and their actual effectiveness in their capacities are constrained. It is an unavoidable fact that they cannot know the entirety of the activities undertaken by their charges. They are ultimately dependent, trusting on non-appointed, non-elected personnel to perform their jobs with a dedication and integrity which reflects the will of the president.

3. The federal judiciary are appointed for life by the president,* end of beginning of story.

4. Watching over the personal security of the president is the Secret Service who cannot be bothered to come up with data subpoenaed by the congress because they don't want to and aren't going to say why because they don't want to and can make shit up whenever they want to because they can because it's a secret and oddly enough gets paid by the treasury department.

5. The president appoints the Attorney General as temporary head of the DOJ. The DOJ is in charge of deciding, from month to month, which criminals will live in fear of, yet escape again, grand jury inquiries and possible indictment. This is how the AG herds the FBI and their flocks of attorneys into their nightly corral and releases it to pasture with the dawn. Thus, the FBI, having grown accustomed to a diurnal cycle, often balks at the exercise of actual law enforcement when directed by a progressive AG who may actually give a shit about justice. It also encapsulates the routine of DOJ attorneys who hide their faces in books, protecting their anonymity while carefully keeping an eye out lest they be called upon to talk about actual stuff upon which they can have an impact but still keep their jobs which their GPA's earned them. It's where the term "quiet desperation" originates.

The system only works when there is an informed electorate.

*In some states the result of a popular vote is not the sole determining factor of an elector's vote per that state's constitution. Peculiar but, hey, traditions, eh?
* What? Are you kidding me? Trump's appointees will haunt the judiciary branch until they die or quit and nobody's coming up with a fix for that?