If he happens to win a second term in office as a result of the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump will quickly become authoritarian dictator who rules the way some of the most notorious strongmen in the world do, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
Raskin made that prediction Sunday during and interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, according to HuffPost.
Raskin began by saying a second Trump presidency would “look a lot like Vladimir Putin in Russia,” adding:
“It would look a lot like Viktor Orbán in Hungary ― ‘illiberal democracy,’ meaning democracy without rights or liberties or respect for the due process, the system, the rule of law.”
“In fact, there’s not much democracy left to it because their position is they don’t accept the integrity of any election where they lose. That is the hallmark of an authoritarian party.”
Raskin continued:
“They don’t accept elections that don’t go their ways. They refuse to disavow political violence. They embrace political violence as an instrument for obtaining power and then everything flows from the will of a charismatic politician, and that is Donald Trump in their book.”
As a final warning, Raskin told Psaki:
“We are clearly headed into a completely different form of government than any of us would recognize as continuous with the past. Right-wing authoritarian government in league with [Russia’s] Putin, [China’s] Xi, [Hungary’s] Orbán, [Brazil’s] Bolsonaro, you name it.”
The 2024 election may well be the most important in history. We cannot afford to let Trump back in office. If he does happen to win, the United States will devolve into tyranny, chaos, and fascism.
