Maybe. Might also just be the natural decay of all government institutions.
A minor quibble but I think much of the decay of our institutions can be laid at the feet of the people and the decline of the culture. We became fat, dumb and happy and the rest is history. Nothing new BTW. It has happened countless times before. Even with our vaunted Constitution, it alone was not enough to protect a people who were unwilling or too distracted to defend it. I harp on this often but I believe our worthless media in all its forms has been the primary driver of this decay. For too long, we BELIEVED these seditious bastards.