We should be talking about masked government agents, endless war, disappearing constitutional safeguards and an imperial presidency accountable to no one. “A head for an eye” may be Trump’s philosophy of war, but it is also a warning about the kind of government that philosophy produces. The result is a government at war not only with foreign enemies but with dissent, privacy, due process, constitutional limits — and ultimately with the American people. Federal agencies resist transparency, police investigate themselves, and private contractors help the government evade constitutional limits. His latest books The Erik Blair Diaries and Battlefield America: The War on the American People are available at www.amazon.com.