The title is a bit clickbaity, but the subtext is that if he is elected, dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.
And the 'increasingly' modifier further shows it's only a potential outcome.
The author isn't the most self-aware... Robert Kagan was a Republican strategist until 2016, he's an interventionalist neocon, thinks the GOP "lost it's way" rather than contributed to this by design.
I agree. I think that if Trump is elected and puts an end to democracy as we know it, but it won't be a dictatorship of Trump, alone. Trump is but a mortal man. And whoever replaces him will be worse.
The title is a bit clickbaity, but the subtext is that if he is elected, dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.
And the 'increasingly' modifier further shows it's only a potential outcome.
The author isn't the most self-aware... Robert Kagan was a Republican strategist until 2016, he's an interventionalist neocon, thinks the GOP "lost it's way" rather than contributed to this by design.
I agree. I think that if Trump is elected and puts an end to democracy as we know it, but it won't be a dictatorship of Trump, alone. Trump is but a mortal man. And whoever replaces him will be worse.