Trump’s first controversial act as president—the famous Muslim ban—was repeatedly struck down by the courts until the administration drafted a version that could pass legal muster. Mark Milley used his final speech as Joint Chiefs chair on Friday to emphasize that troops take an oath to the Constitution and not to a “wannabe dictator,” days after former President Donald Trump suggested the nation’s top officer should be put to death. That was a pretty straightforward authoritarian power-grab,” according to Kristy Parker, a former Department of Justice lawyer now with the Protect Democracy advocacy group. Trump has just begun a strategy of provoking peaceful protesters so that he can exert his absolute and even cruel authority. The psychopathology that underlies and fuels his wish to be an authoritarian dictator is severely malignant.

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With the midterms and some key governors races approaching, Ben-Ghiat is looking around the corner again. A tall, gangly young lawyer with a shock of black hair falling over his forehead, said, “Because one of those two times she was lying. As an authoritarian, his other job has been to make sure to keep hold of the party so no rivals emerge, so that he could [not] be eclipsed by a younger version of himself. The Perfect Dictatorship, Mario Vargas Llosa memorably termed the PRI, in part for their mastery of “demonstration elections” that were always rigged so that the ruling party would win while providing the veneer, the illusion, of a functioning democracy.

All this poses an urgent dilemma in the US, as Americans work out how best to hold back a president who is a menace to the constitution.

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The Democrats had access to the same intelligence as the White House as to the intentions of Trump and his allies. Kim didn't respond directly to Trump's message - but months later he told the South Koreans that he was ready to meet the US president. If Mr Trump is re-elected, even under the more optimistic scenarios the economic and political risks to our country will be innumerable. Once players have decided on their trump suit, they’ll put a card (of that suit) down in front of them. If re-elected, Trump will feel empowered and emboldened to march the country toward dictatorial rule.

Trump, seeing that the governors were not scared of him, then threatened to withold medical equipment based on states’ decisions about opening up. The military had only agreed to elections because the dictatorship’s human rights violations had made it a pariah state; the brutal war had essentially been won, and now they wanted, for obvious economic reasons, to be accepted by the community of nations. It’s much more likely that the midterms go the Republicans’ way, and you fall into a system where your vote doesn’t mean much. When my friend Jean-Marie Simon interviewed him in the National Palace, he pointed to a nearby potted plant, suggesting that an eavesdropping device was planted there, that the National Palace wasn’t a place that he, the president, was free to converse.

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But it‘s also not hard to imagine because Trump and his allies fully and proudly admit that should he beat Joe Biden in 2024 and head back to the Oval Office on January 20, 2025, he’ll run the place like a true authoritarian from day one. And he’s also very smartly tried to turn Florida into this refuge for all who are oppressed by Biden.He frequently remarked that as president he would possess only “70 percent” of the political power; he meant that the military and its allies would retain the rest. That has to do with what he’s always done: collecting compromising information, threatening, and he’s changed the party to an authoritarian party culture. What I'm telling you is that the UN was entrusted with a message from President Trump; I am the carrier of that message. Normal people need to feel that their lives are normal and acceptably good even when they are living in the shadow of human cruelty and injustice.