What is obvious to you seems spectacular to me. You speak like a quiet cynic person, that just throws all in the same pot. But there is a systemic difference in governments, that execute questional decisions and a government, that attacks checks and balances, the free press and acts as if it would stand above the law. In a best case the current US government unites the society in enforcing the democratic foundations. In the worst case, they are successful in their plan to erradicate the foundations.