Donald Trump greets supporters at a rally in the New Holland Arena at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex in Harrisburg on ...

Donald Trump fans keep calling him "daddy." And indeed, America has long had daddy issues with the presidency, but now they’re threatening democracy.

In his Sunday column for MSNBC, the outlet's newsletter editor Ryan Teague Beckwith traced the enduring “daddy” metaphor in presidents — from George Washington, divinely dubbed “the father of our ...