I mostly agree, but:

> ... as the US continues a degradation of democratic ideals and moves closer to authoritarianism.

That depends on what Republican wins. Not all Republicans are Donald Trump-style authoritarians. (For that matter, Obama did quite a bit of rule-by-executive-order, too. If we want that to change, we need to fix the dysfunction in Congress. Presidents more and more almost have to rule by executive order, because Congress has become more and more unwilling or unable to actually do its job.)