For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump has felt the need to assure Americans that, no, he is not a dictator.

“I’m not a dictator. I just know how to stop crime,” he said at an hourslong Cabinet meeting at the White House, where he held forth at great length and many of his Cabinet secretaries celebrated him with over-the-top paeans.

The question of whether Trump is trying to be a dictator has come up this week as he appears to be looking for new cities where he can dispatch the National Guard. These are places such as Chicago, where democratically elected local officials don’t want federal troops on patrol and don’t feel that their crime rates justify such an emergency action.

“If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a da

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