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I guess it’s a fact that a healthy % of citizens in modern Western democracies do have a fondness for authoritarianism."At one point, the Time reporter, Eric Cortellessa, asked Trump if he understood why so many Americans are troubled by what he claimed were his past jokes about being a dictator for one day or terminating the Constitution. The former president replied simply, in one of the most revealing but disquieting answers of the entire interview: “I think a lot of people like it.”
Trump Is an Authoritarian. So Are Millions of Americans
It’s not how we think of our fellow-citizens, but no matter who wins in November, the impulse will be very much alive in the country. What do they want?
And he obviously was not joking at all. He’s knew these facts from the start. Any good, instinctual demagogue, understands this fact and uses it to their advantage. He’s certainly said things that were just him blowing off steam, but we can believe him, he knows exactly what he’s doing. The man has demagogue down pat.