An authoritarian leader wants unified command over everybody who has a gun; he wants them all answerable to him and he wants to be able to use them without restraint. And he wants to be able to use them on his own people.

So, once you start thinking like Trump does, about what power really means to him: when he talks about that there can't be illegal orders by virtue of the fact that when he gives an order, that means they have to do it, gives you real insight into what he thinks the military is for.

And he wants to use them domestically and he wants to use them for everything and he doesn’t see the value of any other form of governing.