An excllent article, thanks Mr. Poplak, and very well said, On the Skids.  It indeed seems = that, after all of the efforts to remove the President have been unsuccessful, it seems that trying to root out those lower down and work up to the top is having more success.  Perhaps the focus must be on accelerating the pace of  removing those lower down, and as you suggest, "pick them off one by one and dump them in the scrapheap". Perhaps then the edifice will eventually collapse once and for all.