Republican voters, we are told, increasingly support the idea of having an authoritarian president, by whom those telling us mean “Donald Trump.” But the same voices completely ignore how authoritarian President Joe Biden is and how Democratic voters are fine with that.

On April 8, Biden announced another round of unilateral college loan bailouts without authorization from Congress. The Supreme Court struck down a bigger bailout last year, but Biden told a crowd of cheering Democrats in Madison, Wisconsin, that “that didn’t stop us.”