In that case, let's hope he's an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he's gone people all agree that this wasn't a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.
When has the death of a dictator by old age ever defaulted back to democracy? There's a lot of people helping him, I'm sure more than a handful are eager to step into his shoes.
He doesn’t need to normalize it. Anyone demented enough to still support him wants him to be a dictator. The only difference is whether they can admit that to themselves or not.
Seriously. He'll absolutely use this as an excuse to boot. He'll continue doing dictator things because his shitheel people will react so positively...
I honestly wish it was as hands down as that. What he said appeals to exactly the kind of people it was directed at....and there are so SO many of those people out there. Majority? I don't know; and that in itself is a problem....it should be absolutely obvious that a significant majority of people aren't aligned with him. But its not.
I'll betcha this ends up working to his advantage somehow.
fucking depressed myself with my own comment. I'm going to go take an Ace Ventura style shower
Lol, elections don't get decided by straight ticket states, they get decided by a handful of states (with occasional exceptions) that sit on the fence, and shit like calling yourself a dictator is exactly the sort of nudge that'll put em off.
Trump might be appealing to the states that would have voted for him anyway, but there's no actual gains there to be had... Ya know?
Yes, and the strategy is basically: the courts/activists/army didn't let me do what I needed to do, so I'll have to extend my dictatorship until it's sorted. Then it never gets sorted.