This is the classic authoritarian line. Give the murderers badges and give the thieves cabinet posts, then say crime is solved. And a fair trial in a dictatorship is an oxymoron.
It's also a myth that there is no crime in authoritarian states, as if they would report it honestly anyway. As the joke went, murder and robbery are illegal because the state doesn't like the competition.
Trump has always praised authoritarian power and dictators. His nature and his desires have always been clear. The matter is preventing him from realizing those desires—and from normalizing them among Americans.
As I wrote yesterday in the Daily News, autocrats always find "higher laws" to invoke when the law of the land stands in their way. That is Trumpism, enabled by the GOP. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
