It's Good to be the King

I had thought about this post yesterday, but another blogger was already on it, but what the hell.   The *president has decided to short circuit the constitution and bring back the monarchy we had supposedly dumped in 1776.  Back then, George 3rd was not an absolute monarch, but still had considerable power to benefit his friends and discomfort his enemies.  tRump has obviously decided this is the way to roll, especially if the law in the person of Robert Mueller is breathing down your neck.  By tweeting out his disdain for our system of government and claiming the power to shut down any investigation of his own wrongdoing, Cheeto Jesus has set the stage for a confrontation among the 3 branches of government.  Absent a resounding democratic victory in November, the legislative branch is supine in the face of the republican leader's popularity with their base voter.  That leaves the Supreme Court as the bulwark of democracy in the face of an executive branch coup.  I'm not betting on the outcome of that showdown.  I wonder if there are any examples in history of a leader who was generally unpopular subverting the democracy he was elected to serve.