In Bob Woodward's book 'Fear' he documents the previous Trump administration. In the first chapter, Woodward describes Trump wanting to end the free trade agreement with South Korea. He was determined to do it, despite the fact that ending the agreement might have severely jeopardised the US's national security, as part of the agreement was that SK could give the USA a seven minute warning if NK launched a nuclear strike aimed at American soil. Without the agreement, the USA would be reliant on a warning from a base in Alaska that could only offer a 15 to 20 minute warning. Trump wholly failed to understand the significance of that risk and would not listen to any security advice.

In the end, Trump's own staff became determined to prevent the President from signing the document to end the free trade agreement with South Korea, and actively hid copies of it or intercepted them before they could reach Trump's desk for his signature. Woodward called the action an administrative coup d'état. I think what will happen is aides and WH staff will do what they can to actually limit Trump's decision making on serious issues, especially affecting national security. In the case of SK and the trade agreement, Trump eventually forgot about it and moved onto other things and his staff breathed a collective sigh of relief. Whether you think that's a good thing is a matter of opinion. I think it might be much harder for anyone to continue preventing such things during this next term.

The faith in democracy, the free press, and the rule of law has been so eroded, this is the result.

You got it backwards. President Trump talks to, and relates to the people in the situations that they actually are. He's their best advocate in decades. He's hated by the elite because they can't control him, and he actually does things they oppose.

As for dictatorship - well, whew- we avoided a disaster by electing President Trump. He will dismantle much of the rights-squashing autocracy that was being built in Washington DC, and he'll be criticized even as he does it.

Generational damage. This is like when the Roman Republic was turned into the Roman Empire. Both share the same name but became fundamentally different societies.

Reminds me, sadly, of a poll taken during the Reagan years in which like 40% of Americans said they thought it would be best to abolish Congress and make Reagan dictator.

Good story but poor conclusion. President Trump’s administration will restore a lot of rights that the Washington elites have trampled on.

You mean like fjb giving away money to Ukraine and college kids

It is never intelligent to put a law breaker that has never faced correction for their felonies, in charge.

So they voted for dictatorship. Great.

This is just scary

I wonder what she would have said, if you'd pointed out that fact.


I hope you are wrong about that last part, but I seriously doubt you are.

No breaks on the Trump train!

...and Germany STILL has Nazis, and they are on the rise.