To answer one obvious question about the third item on the first slide: yes, sometimes investigations are necessary. Watergate and many other scandals were uncovered at least in part by Congressional investigations, and those illegal actions needed to be exposed. However, using investigation as a political tool (both parties have sometimes done so) rather than to get to the heart of an illegal action is essentially "democracy by other means"--that is, action in a democracy that is not based on elections and policy arguments but instead on smearing an opponent. Too much of that is like fast food--both plentiful and unhealthy.
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