Peter Baker in The NY Times details all the ways Trump’s attacks on dissent differs from his predecessors. A few paragraphs in this piece, all of which is well worth reading, struck me in particular:

“’Donald Trump is hardly the first president to crack down on the press and cause controversy by doing so,’ said Harold Holzer, author of ‘The Presidents vs. the Press,’ the definitive history on the subject. ‘But he is the first to do so in what is not a national emergency.’

…“Mr. Trump has increasingly shown his willingness to invoke government reach to go after those who openly question or criticize him. When former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a Republican and estranged ally, said on television last month that Mr. Trump ‘doesn’t care’ about maintaining separation between his offic

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