Pan... as I suggested to Kevin. Click on newest posts firsts and if you have time, please follow my posts. This is not matter of which party was in office -- we have never witnessed the behaviors that attend an emerging dictator in our country. 

"I'm a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can't be doing so badly, because I'm president, and you're not," he told Time's Washington bureau chief, Michael Scherer.  And the guy owns a golden toilet and is proud of it.

This is the current administration. This administration is the one overtly disparaging agencies, and facts, Democracy and reality itself ...  nothing... nothing we have ever seen in the US compares to this. Comparisons only serve to minimize the magnitude of the course we are taking at the price of Democracy.