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I actually thought a little deeper about my "weaksauce cowardliness" verbiage and I feel maybe my anger is unjustified. Honestly, this is what the American people want. Americans like it that the executive can make unilateral military action. If the American people cared, they would have elected people that cares. At this point the power to "declare war" is just writing on a piece of document. In China, they say "Rules are dead, people are alive", maybe what we need is just an update of the rules instead of this charade of calling it "military operation" instead of a "war".
With regards to Dem's behaviors as you described, I suppose that can be considered good politiks or as you say "stupider and more evil". I don't believe "democrats all want war", I think they both don't want war and know how good it is that the Republicans are pushing on anyway. Even now, I'm not sure what to expect from the Democrats to do, it's not like they can shut down the government even harder. Then again, I'm not a legislative aide or some kind of Washington insider who knows the levers of power.
Anyway, this is what American people voted for, isn't this the best way for a people to learn?
They quite literally elected a man who said "no new wars" all the time
They elected a man who said “no new wars,” yes. But they also elected a man with an obvious trail and history of lies that is much greater (relatively) than the normal politician. So Trump's election is not evidence that the public wanted war. It is evidence that a large part of the public was willing to trust, excuse, or ignore dishonesty when it came packaged with promises they liked. So my quibble is with what the American people cared about. They cared about the lies, they didn't care about the credibility of the liar.
PS: Liars with good credibility are what we call innovators and pioneers.
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