Aaron Blake: “Donald Trump is eyeing a more authoritarian second term in the White House. And, increasingly, Republicans seem inclined to support that goal.” “Polling on the GOP’s appetite for a more powerful chief executive has been slow in coming. But it has been coming. And the emerging picture

“I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” — House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), in an interview with Puck.

“Wyoming is a supermajority state, with Republicans making up 86 of the state’s 93 legislators,” USA Today reports. “But uniformity doesn’t mean unity, as the widening chasm between the state’s further-right Freedom Caucus and more moderate establishment Republicans has grown in recent years and

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift, USA Today reports. Said Cheney: “Certainly, what’s happening in the Republican party is dangerous. We now have one of our two major political parties that

“Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, recently elected Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, said in a new interview that the national party doesn’t plan to pay his ongoing legal bills and maintained that donors could opt-out of contributing funds for that if they want to,” ABC News reports.