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"This was too much even for Senate majority leader John Thune, who acknowledged when pressed that he disagreed with the president’s call for the execution of his colleagues. And it provoked a rebuke from National Review and Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy: “There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition. Disobeying an unlawful order is required. That is all.”

Even Trump’s spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, had to sort of walk back Trump’s statement a few hours later, leading to the remarkable spectacle of a breaking news alert informing the public that, no, the president did not want members of the opposition party killed.

It’s obviously beyond irresponsible for a president to call for death for members of Congress who had the temerity to restate the law of the land. It’s also dangerous. Rep. Houlahan’s office filed a threat complaint to the Capitol Police against “the president,” and she was right to do so.

In a normal political world such behavior by a president would call for censure by Congress, if not impeachment, and would provoke talk about invoking the 25th Amendment. We don’t, alas, live in a normal political world. But we do still live in a world in which Trump can’t simply suppress dissent. We do still live in a world in which Trump doesn’t simply get his way. Much to his disappointment, President Trump is no Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.

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