New poll reveals Republicans are authoritarian curious, while Americans are starkly divided on Trump’s 2020 guilt

The Joe Biden presidential campaign is positioning the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy. But a new poll suggests that defending America’s constitutional system of checks and balances is no longer an electoral slam dunk.

A startling 39 percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Republicans, think it’s a decent idea for Donald Trump to act as a dictator for a day to begin his prospective second term, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst survey released Wednesday.

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    5 months ago

    39% were willing to admit it to a surveyor. It’s probably higher, no? Is this really going down like this?

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      The means of communication are owned by the few and it reprogrammed a lot of people. Don’t let them tell you it comes out of nowhere. They are constantly flooded with lies about the state of things.