Just two weeks after Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump already is acting in ways more suited to a self-indulgent, power-mad Roman emperor than to the president of a constitutional republic.

More than a few of Trump’s early personnel announcements, combined with his demands and threats to greatly augment executive power, make clear that service to him — his whims, his grievances, and his unchecked authority — supersedes all other considerations. Personal character is of no account, nor is experience, nor is obeisance to constitutional guardrails.