Trump has also targeted law firms who have filed lawsuits he opposes, while the Federal Communications Commission, led by a Trump appointee, is investigating every major broadcast network except Fox, which owns the pro-Trump Fox News channel. Trump has personally sued news channels over critical coverage and fired the government’s top labour statistician because she published jobs data that he didn’t like.
He has threatened Democrats with prosecution, and demanded that former president Barack Obama be investigated for treason. Trump has done all this as his family has ostensibly earned millions of dollars from his presidency.
None of these things are typical for a democratic leader. So … is Trump a dictator?
“Yes, of course,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of sociology at Princeton University who spent years researching autocracies including Hungary and Russia. Scheppele said she had been wavering on using the term “dictatorship” until recently, but said: “If I was hesitating before, it’s this mobilization of the national guard and the indication that he plans to overtake resistance by force that now means we’re in it.”
I just hope, when he dies, it breaks the spell he appears to have on people and they recognize the tyranny that they’ve been championing for what it is.
Not going to hold my breath.
It won’t change anything because immigrants are still here and women still have jobs. The new GOP is all about putting us back in the 30’s. They will continue to be angry and support any leader who hates the people they hate.
Yeah, I think that will be the case for most of them probably. But I’m hoping there’s a number of them that were (for reasons that will forever be beyond my comprehension) drawn in by Trump’s behavior and manner of speaking, that will either snap out of it, or just stop paying attention to politics or voting altogether.