Right, after a lot of opportunities by Democrats to do things to stop him.

Surely you are aware of how judges are appointed for the supreme court. And frankly we needn't get into the selections themselves... which are dubious at best and their track record since appointment is well ... I digress. Suffice to say that they, like a large part of Congress, are not acting in a way befitting their station. Yes this has been a problem for a long time however ...

Is the subject at hand not "Why have we gotten into this situation ... "

... we are in this situation because a corrupt president who is willing (through coercion or he's simply that gullible) to be a megaphone for the Kremlin. The executive branch has a lot of flexibility in the role which could lead to abuse.. but the station was given sufficient respect and most do not grossly overstep. Enter the king clown. Not only willing to overstep but willing to go well beyond that. Typically you wouldn't expect this to cause too much chaos unless...

Trying to pin our problems on some external enemy is just missing the point. The Republicans don't need foreign encouragement to strip the country for parts and sell it to the rich.

The Republicans are willing dupes in this situation. They are being baited with tiny victories and hollow promises while mindlessly backing someone who has, oddly enough, been steadily moving us in a direction which benefits one entity... Russia. This isn't random:

Who benefits from us no longer sending Ukraine weapons? Russia.

Who benefits from a weaker NATO? See above.

Benefit from weakening global trade and ties? Yuuuup.

How about weakening the US's nuclear position? Hmm. Yep. Again. Odd.

Now maybe you are imagining some world where these are simply incidental...

What reason in this random world would our president be deeply interested in beneficial treatment of Russia while burning bridges with our existing allies? Do tell.

And don't get me started on Canada. Putin is looking for the hat trick here. Canada. The country we are so tight with that they provide a number of our states with significant amounts of electricity. Enough so, that should they cut us off, we could see catastrophic grid failures worse than the 2003 blackout. There is 0 reason to provoke our northern neighbors unless looking for this eventuality. No mental gymnastics can possibly explain away the fervor that the apricot has put into pissing Canadians, of all people, off.

You wrote a sentence that didn't have the information you were talking about in a comment that didn't talk about what you say the "it" was referring to in a thread with several points of discussion.

Inference is the key, comrade. I imagine most Americans are familiar with checks and balances and our government at a basic level... so if I am talking about something checking corruption... one might infer what I was referencing. I understand the confusion though: in some countries with "presidents" they have a virtual dictatorship where people fall out of windows if they step out of line. Naturally there are no such checks or balances in said places. One might be forgiven for not being able to catch an inference to something they are less familiar with.