The real story is this. In every part of the government that involves the use of force — the military, the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the authority to arrest, the capacity to hold individuals in jail — Trump is putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States. He has purged at the highest levels of the Dept. of Defense, the Justice Dept., the Dept. of Homeland Security, the Inspectors General, and the FBI, anyone who is not personally loyal to him. Trump is rapidly gaining a monopoly on the use of force. This is the essence of tyranny.