Photoshopping the American president with a Hitler mustache is getting pretty old. George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have all gotten the Hitler treatment by their opponents, and we’re so used to it by now that it’s lost its sting.
In the midst of a constitutional crisis, it helps to think in more than one category. So let’s try something else.
President Trump’s recent declaration of a national emergency reminds me of another jarring “emergency” that scuttled liberty: the executive orders of Lilburn Boggs.
Most Tribune readers will remember Boggs as the governor of Missouri in 1838, when anti-Mormon mobs in the west of the state were hounding and harassing Mormons.