Steven Greenhut: Left’s teachable moment about perils of unlimited government

SACRAMENTO — The freer the nation, the less the public needs to care about anything that its leader might say or do. In freer nations, the leader’s powers are strictly limited and the citizens’ rights are protected. Yet in America today, we are dependent on every whim, utterance and narcissistic rage post from our president, as he pursues policies that could disrupt our lives. In that way, we’re more like North Korea than our founders’ America.

This has always been true to a degree, but since Donald Trump took office last year...