Trump Says Some Americans Might Like a Dictator. He’s Right.

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If you think freedom and liberty are the default position for pretty much all Americans—polling has some bad news for you.

, but few were more eye opening than an exchange that, in my opinion, didn’t garner the attention it deserved.

Arguably even more alarming, the PRRI survey also showed that “nearly a quarter of Americans agree that ‘because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country…’”“approximately 18 percent of Americans are highly disposed to authoritarianism,” while “23 percent or so are just one step below them on the authoritarian scale.”

Now, it’s fair to say that someone could favor a robust law-and-order regime and still not want an out-and-out dictatorship. But few dictators show up saying they want to be dictators; it’s easy to see the slippery slope between what these surveys measure and an authoritarian regime. Most of us would have assumed that espousing dictator rhetoric would be a death knell for any modern American politician. But somehow, Trump instinctively understood something that the rest of us did not.

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