Something else dawned on me too. It’s always the anti-Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon brigade that are always being asked to justify the calls of Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon being a dictator and that he is Hitler etc. What I’m curious about is whether they actually swallow Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon’s BS about how if Biden wins, it’s the end of the world. Cos I gotta say, we heard that messaging in 2020, and the world is still chugging along just fine. If he wins, it’s WWIII. Yet he’s already been President for nearly a full term. Why is the next world war taking so long? And just FTR, the world will continue to chug along just fine, regardless who wins in November.
I think the main concern is that last time Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon got in, his cronies didn't know quite what to do and the regular guardrails of the government remained in place, to stop the train going off the rails. You will recall Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon took months and months to even figure out his appointments etc.
This time around they are much better prepared. There is that manifesto - Project 2025. There are threats of dismantling the FBI, Dept of Justice, Dept of Education. Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon already said he wants to sack half the public servants and only hire them back on temp contracts, which is supposedly to weed out the "deep state" he thinks exists in the bureaucracy.
If Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon used all possible mechanisms to attempt to deny the last election, if he becomes commander-in-chief again, what's to stop him using his executive powers to rig or deny the next election? Because that's the way these autocrats operate - they get into power, enjoy it so much, then slowly slowly dismantle or eliminate the threats to their power.
For example Putin has won a whole bunch of phony elections, but did remove himself as President at one point due to the term limits (put his PM in and became PM himself), before simply removing the term limits altogether. Likewise Xi has removed his own term limits and ruthlessly cut out his opponents within his party. Viktor Orban has gone after his political opponents, worked on press freedoms, influenced the courts.
Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon has already stacked the Supreme Court in his favour, what odds he continues to do so, then if he does something potentially "unconstitutional" he gets a ruling from the SC in his favour?
That's something you simply don't have to worry about if a Democrat comes to power next term. It's not something America had to previously worry about many of the Republican candidates either (maybe Nixon excluded), as if Reagan or Bush would have refused to leave office.