COMMENTARY The partisan leash Mexico's ruling party just clamped on the country's judiciary should be a warning that America's courts are also in the crosshairs of a president pushing loyalty over legality.

Mario Vargas Llosa must be scowling as he looks down from the writers’ afterlife this week.

And President Donald Trump must be smiling as he looks south from the U.S. this week.

Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian author and Nobel laureate who died in April, was famous for too many sage observations to count. But in my top ten was his description of Mexico as “the perfect dictatorship — because it’s disguised so as not to look like a dictatorship.”

He issued that quip in the 1990s, when Mexico was under the authoritarian thumb of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. (Talk about the

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