Donald Trump has made the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol a cornerstone of his re-election bid, making his authoritarian ambitions harder to ignore. The former president hailed his imprisoned supporters who violently stormed the Capitol as “unbelievable patriots” and pledged to pardon them on his first day in office if re-elected, and those lawless threats should send a chill through anyone who values democracy and the rule of law, according to one expert who spoke to the Associated Press. “Listen to Trump,” said Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at Yale. Trump has been in…