George Pyle: Why ‘our Mussolini’ can’t afford to lose

“The peaceful transfer of power is a thing of beauty. One moment Barack Obama is leader of the Free World. A moment later it’s Angela Merkel.”— George Takei, on Twitter, 12:15 p.m., Jan 20, 2017It was, maybe, 30 years ago that a friend of mine ran for a seat in the Missouri Legislature on a platform that nearly made up in honesty what it lacked in almost everything else.“I need the job.”He lost. But nobody ever asked to see his tax returns.Americans now have c