David Frum on Trump and autocracy:

If the story ends without too much harm to the republic, it won’t be because the dangers were imagined, but because citizens resisted.

This is anti-Trumpism as a closed system, no? It leaves no possibility that events can ever convince Frum he was wrong (e.g., that the dangers maybe weren’t imagined but were just never close to materializing). Nice work if you can get it. …