And available sources of power?

Imagine US reality today if the confederacy hadn't been coddled and instead were punished to the full extent of the law.

Because the richest people thumb their noses at your creator.

If that is true, where is the public outcry; the public outrage?

Very troubling is code for impotent hand-wringing.

The disdain of trump is hard to shake, but I am less expressive of it.

Started with a white male supremacist constitution.

Will he or won't he — self-pardon?

Too many is when the pardon power stops being a safeguard and becomes a weapon or a bribe.
A president should use pardons the way a surgeon uses a scalpel: with precision, restraint, and a steady hand not like someone hacking at a political piñata hoping candy falls out.