IF A SINGLE political idea has tied Americans together over their first quarter of a millennium, it is that one-person rule is a mistake.
Most Americans also agree that the federal government is slow and incompetent. Together, these things ought to make it impossible for one man to govern by diktat from the White House.
And yet that is what this president is doing: sending in the troops, slapping on tariffs, asserting control over the central bank, taking stakes in companies, scaring citizens into submission.
