This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like...

And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it

Lately, as I just wrote in the Atlantic, it has become fashionable to dislike or despise constitutional democracies. Many feel frustrated by the difficulty of forging compromises in parliamentary systems, or by the slow pace of decision-making:

Just as in the first half of the 20th century, would-be authoritarians have begun arguing that we would all be…