I’m not here today to say Donald Trump has finally arrived as a full-blown dictator. I’m not a fear-mongerer, gentle reader, although many people are saying they like fear-mongerers.

I’m here to tell you what Trump had to say on the matter recently in responding to those who have opposed his decision to send National Guard troops to D.C. and his threats to send them to other blue cities, usually with Black mayors, in blue states:

“They say, ‘We don’t need him. Freedom, freedom. He’s a dictator. He’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.’”

Trump then caught himself, adding, “I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person.”

And in case you thought that was a Trumpian one-off, he added in a Cabinet meeting th

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