The Pro-Dictator Vote

Jonathan Last: “Trump has decided that his authoritarianism isn’t a football that needs to be hidden—it’s his special sauce. That’s new.”

“What’s not new…is that there is a constituency for this pitch. There are people who are objectively pro-dictator.”

“Those people do not constitute a majority of the American public. They might not even constitute a majority of the Republican party. But they are a much larger cohort than we imagined.”

“The question is how big that cohort can grow before liberal democracy becomes unsustainable.”