So I’m not being paranoid. Steve Bannon has been talking about an emergency declaration since February (“Declaring a national emergency over our elections to stop foreign interference”) and was repeating it again last week (“Steve Bannon says Trump’s Thursday night speech must be a ‘predicate’ for a ‘national security emergency executive order’ on elections”). … After a long introductory windup, Heather Cox Richardson delivers the pitch: last Thursday’s speech was much more than just a whine session.