A more crafty autocrat would realize that he needn't exercise the full range of powers that Roberts just handed him because the fear that he might would be enough. But Trump will be unable to resist playing with his toys, and the project 2025 assholes who will surround him won't care to stop him.
Successful autocracy requires the illusion of normalcy. You might think there's something off here, but look, nothing obviously bad is happening. But his whole shtick has always been premised on taking a big old crap on normalcy. And because he's always been rewarded for it, he won't change.
