totally agree. we are going to see things this country has never seen. people who have had free rein to plot against the rest of us will find it's not the cozy place it used to be. in a very real sense, they've blown it.
i don't like to compare events with fiction, whether movie or whatever, because fiction can be as unrealistic and as impracticable as an audience will allow. when our superhero defeats five bad guys who mostly just stood around to take the blows, we don't notice how goofy it really is.
that said, i am reminded of a tv series from way back when i used to watch tv. many or most of you won't recognize the title mission impossible. never mind most people called it mission implausible, the plot always seemed to feature a goal that wasn't approachable in any usual, main force sense, but relied on crafting a sequence of careful actions with meticulous timing to satisfy the assignment. of course, all the agents were perfect and nobody sneezed at just the wrong time. thus it wasn't reality, but we bought it, lock, stock, and bilious baloney.
what we are watching is a true-life mission impossible. no cleavers here. that's not available. this is meticulous unwinding like defusing a bomb from the wrong end.