The United States faces its greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Consider these recent headlines.

From the Washington Post: “A Trump Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable. We Should Stop Pretending.” On Dec. 4, The New York Times published “Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First,” the Guardian published Jan-Werner Müller’s “A Second Trump Term Will Be Far More Autocratic Than the First. He’s Telling Us,” and The Atlantic published Jeffrey Goldberg’s “A Warning.”