Jonathan Bernstein writes at Bloomberg View that it’s “nonsense” to say that President Obama is acting like a “king,” “dictator,” or “Caesar,” and Republicans know it. “After all, if you truly believe a president is a lawless dictator, you don’t bother going to court against him. He would just ignore what the court says!” Republicans’ actual behavior, he argues, is consistent with their knowing that Obama is acting like a run-of-the-mill president.

I don’t know why Bernstein stopped where he did. He should have added: “Obviously Republicans don’t believe he’s a lawless dictator, because they’d know better than to speak out against him if he were! The existence of dissent proves that Obama isn’t doing anything very bad. Nobody should warn about Caesarism until they see tanks in the streets of D.C.” It would be just as strong an argument.