Inside Trump Tower early Tuesday morning, the president-elect was watching a Fox News segment about veterans protesting the removal of the American flag at a Massachusetts college after anti-Trump demonstrators burned the national banner.

Thirty minutes later, he tweeted his feelings on the subject: flag burning, a constitutionally protected expression of free speech, should be illegal, he asserted.

“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be consequences — perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” Mr. Trump wrote in a 6:55 a.m. Twitter post.

As it was two weeks ago when Trump whined about the cast of Hamilton preaching to the vice president-elect about American values or last week when he asserted without evidence that “millions” voted illegally, and as it has been from the beginning of his escalator ride into American politics, Trump’s willingness to flout the norms, to bulldoze political niceties has only solidified his standing with millions of supporters and forced his foes into their roles as pointy-headed, overly intellectualized coastal elites.

What’s different now, however, is that Trump is no longer a man vying for the office. He is the man building a government, and his addiction to Twitter and desire to communicate sans filter to his nearly 16.3 million followers are offering Americans a...read more at Politico