2) What kind of "anti-democratic authoritarian" are you predicting? Every president has been one to some extent.
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Replying to @ThaddeusRussell @ChMadar
Authoritarian that will be within range that will be acceptable to sizable minority if not majority.
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Like, more authoritarian than FDR or Wilson?
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You think he'll criminalize political dissent? Impose a peacetime draft? Lock up a race of people?
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Unlike Wilson, FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini, he 1) seems pretty clearly against territorial expansion . . .
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2) and has no intention to create a regimented citizenry or command-and-control economy.
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Trump's support for "Law and Order" is support for citizenry regimented by even greater police powers.
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Cf Pence's remarks in support of the SC cop defendant in the
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Modest steps for #cjreform by Obama now dead at fed level, likely hindered at state and local by AG Sessions
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I agree with that, but that's a long way from the kind of authoritarianism people are envisioning.
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