The Increasingly Authoritarian-Curious Republican Party

Aaron Blake: “Donald Trump is eyeing a more authoritarian second term in the White House. And, increasingly, Republicans seem inclined to support that goal.”

“Polling on the GOP’s appetite for a more powerful chief executive has been slow in coming. But it has been coming. And the emerging picture is that Republicans are remarkably on-board with a president who isn’t answerable to Congress and the courts — significantly more so than Democrats.”

“And perhaps as significantly, very few Republicans seem to strongly object to the idea.”