I wholeheartedly concur with your analysis. The article is too kind to Jimmy. It ascribes his actions to misguided attempts to do good, to a naive assumption that if we submit to tyrants, they will be kind to us.
I think Jimmy is smart enough to know that tyrants will commit treachery, and evil enough to submit us to them anyway. He WANTS America to be brought low. There is absolutely, absolutely no other possible explanation for his behavior since leaving the White House.
Fixed it for ya.
Qwinn