For many, the evidence is in: President Donald Trump wants to be an autocrat.

If you haven't read a column or heard a radio, TV or podcast commentator make that case, it's probably because you've tried hard to avoid doing so. It would require virtually never watching cable news, including pro-Trump outlets, because Fox News and its imitators love running clips of MSNBC hosts and other "resistance" types , not to mention Democratic politicians, melting down over Trump's "war on democracy," "authoritarian power-grabs," etc.

Move further to the right, and you'll find populists who want Trump to be an autocrat. They use terms like "Red Caesarism," or "neomonarchism," while others pine for an American Pinochet or Francisco Franco or compare Trump to biblical figures like the Persian King

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