Donald Trump’s wild week as he embraces his autocratic madman era

Trump appears to have acknowledged the impending doom facing Republicans in the Midterms and begun to distance himself from them – meanwhile testing autocracy on for size Donald Trump appears to have started his autocrat madman era early. For a while I’ve been concerned that once the midterms are out of the way, with the Republicans expected to be given a pummelling, and he had nothing to lose, his unhinged behaviour be markedly less restrained. But this week he appears to have acknowledged the impending doom facing the party of which he is nominally the leader – and started to…