Power doesn’t really corrupt, it often reveals

Yup. Trump wasn't corrupted by power. He was corrupt before the power.

Perhaps there was something corrupt about how the corrupt came to power?

'Murican efficiency bitch!

Power corrupts. Always. Every time. That's the basic idea behind democracy. You only get power for a limited time and you're bound by law and held accountable for breaking it. That's why besides free and fair elections the other pillars of democracy are rule of law and the separation of powers. Right now we can see in the US what happens when these principles are overturned.

One of the three branches is nominated and confirmed by the other two branches, so you only really have to capture the senate and the presidency, as we have seen.

Yeah, the president isn't even supposed to have that much power. It's the party-first subservience in the other two branches, especially the legislative branch, which is exacerbating the issue. And the fact that the state-level governments are bowing down to Der Leader whuch appear to be amplifying his bullshit.

You say that like it would help us currently. We keep electing these people. We're clearly not collectively interested in removing them from power.

Congress has to impeach this guy next year.