Key takeaways: • President Trump’s attacks on Sen. Mark Kelly and other Democrats for urging members of the armed forces not to follow unlawful orders is dangerous and incendiary. • There’s little reason to believe, however, that this attempt will be any more successful than similar attempts to intimidate other critics of the president, such as James Comey or Letitia James, via legal actions. • Talking like a dictator is a lot harder than ruling like a dictator in a system designed to balance powers against each other and prioritize the rule of law over an autocrat’s decree.

On the face of it, the Trump administration’s persecution of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) seems really scary. But if you look a little deeper, the story starts to look a little different: proof of Trump’s authoritaria

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