Scholars of global authoritarianism weighed in on James Comey’s indictment by Trump-installed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan. They wrote to the judge overseeing the former FBI director’s case to warn that it “mirrors many of the features of politicized prosecutions” in the countries they study — they argued that it’s essential to view the case “in the larger context of how politicized prosecutions are used in autocracies and backsliding democracies and the risks that even one such prosecution poses.” Trump isn't even trying to hide his plans anymore.