To see how fragile our current situation is one need only look at the failure of reconstruction to see how quickly democracy as a real functioning system can vanish, with the combination of legislative action, election process subversion, a compliant court system and violence. Although we are not there yet, we are certainly "in the neighborhood" and the proposals put forward in the article need to have an addendum which takes into account the possibility that one of the partisans needed for a "bi-partisan" effort is acting entirely in bad faith with a view to holding on to power as a minoritarian party. Such maintaining of power is fundamentally inimical to democracy in which the will of a majority of citizens is supposed to be determinant. Failure to take this current situation into account in the analysis and the proposals is, unfortunately leaving out a critical component that needs to be addressed.