everything will be as it is now, just a little different

“That which is without limits breaks through”

He claims the power to pardon himself.

It hardly seems extraordinary in 2018 in the United States, but that's because the tenor of conversation, at every level, has changed so radically in the last year and a half. It's very difficult for me.

Here's some Carl Schmitt, writing in 1932:

If legality and illegality can be artbitrarily at the disposal of the majority, then the majority can, above all, declare their domestic competitors illegal, [...] thereby excluding them from the democratic homogeneity of the people. Whoever controls 51 percent would be able legally to render the remaining 49 percent illegal. The majority would be permitted to use legal means to close the door to legality, through which they themselves entered, and to treat partisan opponents like common criminals, who are then perhaps reduced to kicking their boots on the locked door.