Lest anyone think that Donald Trump is the only president to muse about the benefits of a dictatorship, recall that the previous Republican president, George W. Bush, did as well. Following a meeting with congressional leaders days after the Supreme Court essentially declared him the winner of the 2000 presidential election, Bush said, “I told [them] that there are going to be some times where we don’t agree with each other, but that’s OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier — just so long as I’m the dictator.”

Considering the lengthy post-election saga that put him in the White House, it was an odd thing to say. But Dubya had a habit of saying the quiet part out loud, just as Trump does. Republicans like that in their presidents.

But then the GOP also seems t

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