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This is from the British magazine, The Economist. (I like their use of the word "brutish.")
America’s system of checks and balances seems to be working
But there is still plenty to worry about
The morning after Donald Trump was elected president, Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic attorney-general of New York, summoned his raddled senior lawyers to a war council. Seated in his unfussy 25th-floor office in lower Manhattan, Mr Schneiderman told them to assume Mr Trump’s brutish campaign pledges were in earnest, and to clear their desks for action.