Trouble with you lefties is you rely on crooked politicians to keep the status quo. Never getting anything done, wasting out tax money

He has also said...

1. He's smart.
2. He's a successful businessman.
3. The nuclear threat from North Korea was eliminated.
4. He would resolve the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Day-1.
5. He would eliminate inflation on Day-1.
6. He would lower grocery prices on Day-1.
7. He knows more than the Generals.
8. At the next school shooting (over 4 years ago) he would run into the school himself to save the children.
9. He will protect all women.
10. He's not incoherent, fat, or worthless.
11. He wouldn't play as much golf as Obama did.
12. He would never fall asleep on the job.

Of course he’s a dictator—or that’s what he’s trying to be. Why else would he try so hard to circumvent the stopgaps in our system that prevent any one person from gaining total control of the country ? And it’s so obvious that he wants that control for himself—for an indefinite period of time. He’s said as much.

By-passing the legislature . .
Reducing participation in the democratic process (by opposing mail in ballots) . .
Using state power and finance to suppress dissenting voices . .
Ruling by instinct and taking counsel from a small inward looking group of advisors . .

All sounds fairly authoritarian to me.

He acts like it, but a label is just a matter of semantics and not the crux of the issue.

You seem quite caught up in rhetoric.

It's a well researched piece. A non-academic summary might be 'If looks like a duck...'

He is not a dictator yet, officially. I suspect he will be removed by Project 2025 when he has made the country unstable enough to suit them...😷

He'd better f'in' wake up, because we are already there.

The capitalists are dictators, the rest work for them in wage slavery because we don't have our own means of production.

He'll never be anything but the wannabe dictator that he is now.

A dic, and a dictator.

Oh calm down he has 2 years left 🙄