What’s really behind Trump’s autocratic bombast?

Over just a few days this month, President Trump declared that CNN and MSNBC weren’t just biased — no, that would be too pedestrian — but actually illegal.

He posted that former President Biden’s pardons are “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,” shouting in an all-caps post on Truth Social.

He declared that a federal judge should be impeached, not for breaking the law or for gross misconduct, but for issuing a ruling Trump didn’t like.

And yet...