In the past few decades, any Republican candidate who professed a respect for dictators, especially those from Russia, China, or North Korea, would be in trouble with his party. Party officials, elected officials and voters would be horrified, and they would have quickly dispatched such a person. While they may have been wrong about economic issues, they were patriots who loved their country and its democracy.
But that is not today's Republican Party. The party has devolved into little more than a cult of personality for Donald Trump. And whatever Trump wants is OK with party officials, elected representatives, and the overwhelming majority of the party's base. And Trump has made it very clear what he wants - a dictatorship.
This is not my fevered imagination. Trump has made it very clear. He admires the dictators of Hungary, Russia, China, and North Korea - and he is jealous of the power they are able to wield.
When he was first elected, Trump was surprised to learn that a U.S. president did not have such power. He tried to wield that kind of power, but was blocked by government officials (many of them officials that he has put in office). Their loyalty was to the Constitution - not to Donald Trump.
Trump will not make that same mistake again. If re-elected, he will only appoint people who declare their loyalty totally to him, and any government official who doesn't declare that loyalty to Trump will be fired. His aides are already compiling such a list of Trump loyalists - people who will do what Trump wants, regardless of the law or the Constitution.
Donald Trump is a serious threat to United States democracy. That should disqualify him with American voters.
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