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Poll: Three-quarters of Republicans back Trump being ‘dictator for a day’
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The irony of Donald Trump’s assertion that he would seek to have dictatorial powers for the first day of his presidency is that he was supposed to be saying he had no authoritarian inclinations at all.
On Wednesday, UMass Amherst released the results of a poll conducted by YouGov in which respondents were asked about the concept.
It’s been obvious for years that there is a non-insignificant part of the American public, largely on the right, that is supportive of the idea of suborning democracy to absolute executive power.
He can try to mandate that a wall be built on the border with Mexico, but he tried that when he was president, too, declaring a state of emergency that allowed him to shift funding around to pay for it.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked him what he meant by it in an interview on Sunday, again framing it in the context of the concerns raised by outside observers.
In response, Trump praised executive orders in general and suggested that President Biden was the one undercutting democracy.
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