Countries’ tack to the hard right should be a warning to the U.S.
By now we’ve heard the presumptive GOP nominee — the twice-impeached, quadruply indicted sexual assaulting slumlord former host of Celebrity Apprentice — intends to turn the United States into a dictatorship “on day one”.
Former republican House member Liz Cheney is joining in the growing alarm over the erasure of democracy a potential Trump second term would cause in her new book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning. She hopes President Joe Biden wins another term as her own party has abandoned the Constitution and the country is “sort of sleepwalking into dictatorship”.
Now comes Ohio Senator J.D. Vance’s calling for an investigation into Washington Post op-ed writer Robert Kagan for daring to write about Donald Trump’s recent pronouncements of plans to turn the United States into a strong-man Hungarian- or Russian-style dictatorship.
This is why a piece published in The Economist, titled “Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024,” states:
Because MAGA Republicans have been planning his second term for months, Trump 2 would be more organised than Trump 1. True believers would occupy the most important positions. Mr Trump would be unbound in his pursuit of retribution, economic protectionism and theatrically extravagant deals. No wonder…
