I see another philosophical problem here, one of relying on princes.
One can get the purest prince, but if one treats that prince as set and forget, one might as well have relied on the prince.
100% agree. We get the government we deserve. We will either be governed by God or by god we will be governed. America has trusted in the reserve currency and a strong military while embracing fornication, abortion, homosexuality, divorce, blasphemy, using the government to redistribute wealth to the sluggards, the unrestrained use of government to attempt to make heaven on earth and instead we get Dante's Detroit. The next president can do little against the bureaucracy, media and the insatiable avarice of the population. So we must trust in the Lord, but that does not alleviate the duty of citizenship in choosing our magistrates. The criteria for that choice ought be the law of God.