Yes, too much emphasis is put on Trump. He's just the President. This crisis has been 80 years in the making.

It's the Supreme Court that has expanded the powers of the President, and previously of the Federal government, far beyond what was ever intended.

By allowing the federal government to dominate the states, the Supreme Court created a position of unrivalled power.

Trump may be an evil narcissist by the standards of normal people, but there's plenty of those sorts of people in politics. That's why you have a constitution.