final point: The Patriot Act is now used far more often in the war on drugs than the war on terror. RICO is similarly mis-used. Granting unilateral authority to the executive branch is inherently dangerous. Are we to wait to see how Trump or some future executive may abuse this power? I would prefer not. If we abandon our republican (checks and balances) ideals to pragmatically deal with a specific problem, I am concerned about what the future may look like with those protections eroded.