“The election of a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress in November will be more than the normal alteration of power between two major parties in a mature democracy. It will be deliverance.
Democratic voters will want Congress to support, not check, the president whose election victory ends the nightmare of the Trump presidency. There will be little political reward for congressional Democrats to enact legislation to harden democratic institutions against future abuses of presidential power.
But that is exactly when Congress must enact reforms. Trump himself may be an aberration, but we cannot assume that the abuse of presidential power is. It is now rightist dogma that the Constitution vests broad and “illimitable” power in the president. A smarter, more disciplined, less brazen future president may be even more of a threat to democracy. The day could come when Democrats in Congress will regret failure to enact reforms while they had the chance.”
Miller, Brad. Preventing the Next Trump. The post-Trump paradox: We need a strong president to use the office for the public good—but not an abusive president. American Prospect. February 6, 2020. https://prospect.org/politics/preventing-the-next-trump/.