Column: Think Donald Trump isn't really serious about being a dictator? Think again

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "I met Diamond in July 2019, when Trump was 2½ years into his presidency.
55% : But the threat that Trump poses to America's democratic institutions and norms is unprecedented.
52% : An entire chapter, titled "The Decline of American Democracy," is devoted to Trump.
46% : Trump has always flirted with the idea of autocracy.
40% : Given a second term, she said, Trump would readily hand Ukraine over to Putin "for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with ... a dictator who would eat you for lunch.
38% : Trump has already tried to strong-arm state officials into overturning the results of a free and fair election.
36% : Even before all that, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright called Trump "the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
34% : "They say we lost," Trump told a crowd in Arizona last week, whining about 2020 as usual.
33% : "And eventually," Trump said, "maybe he'll use them.
28% : Instead, they die slowly, incrementally, poisoned at the roots by the fear and anger instilled by demagogues like Trump.
27% : "I consider Trump a very serious threat to American democracy," said Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books about democracy.
24% : "In a rambling response, Trump repeated his dubious claim that Russia would never have invaded Ukraine on his watch and added that Putin has an arsenal of nuclear weapons.

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