Late Show with Stephen Colbert | The Professor's Convatorium

For most of my adult life I have had great respect and adoration for America’s elite historians. Some of the first that come to mind are Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed, Douglas Bradburn, David McCullough, and several others. I follow most all of them and have read many of their published books. Sometimes another historian enters the limelight of American political history and/or journalism. One such historical journalist was recently a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His name? John Dickerson, a frequent guest on Colbert’s shows.

*The meaning of Separation of Powers as our Core Founding Fathers intended in the late 18th-century*

But sadly, this original design by our Founding Fathers (above image) no longer exists today. Try hard to find its current virtues, the applications, the execution and equal humble moderation. You won’t find it under this administration. They could care less about it.

Dickerson summed up superbly on the Colbert late show aired February 25, 2026, with exactly why the cogs and wheels of our federal government today are falling off, broken, and disintegrating… or “obliterated” to use an overkill abused White House word of late. And the prime example, the prime felon and demolisher—no pun intended on the East Wing of the White House—was made bare and obvious with the supposed State of the Union Lies and Address delivered February 24, 2026, to the American public. I highly recommend watching John Dickerson’s interview, answers, and explanations of just how monumentally President tRump and his MAGA cult followers are comprehensively missing the Venezuelan and American boat, so to speak: