On the menu today: The argument that President Trump is a dictator can get overwrought; so far he hasn’t defied any Supreme Court decisions, but he did recently say in an interview with Larry Kudlow that he raised tariffs on goods from Switzerland because he was annoyed by a phone call from “the prime minister of Switzerland.” (Switzerland has a president, not a prime minister. Already we’re seeing the consequences of ending the annual publication of the CIA World Factbook.)
Still, one of the marks of a dictatorial regime is the habit of making arbitrary decisions and not explaining or justifying those decisions to the public. What we just saw in El Paso, Texas, is not necessarily dictatorial, but it does reflect a sprawling federal government that announces big and consequential ...
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