They said the same thing before Trump was president, that he was a dictator, and the country did just fine.
Okay, then can you show me what reputable body of political analysts at the time said that Trump was already a dictator in 2016? I'll wait.
And NOOO!, the country absolutely DID NOT do "just fine" under Trump. In fact it was a complete shit-show for the ages, as not just *us*, but the body of political scholars found:
https://www.google.com/search?q=presidential+scholars+trump+worst+president
Point is-- it was in fact the OPPOSITE, as actual facts & reality continue to support.
Indeed, Trump's administration was also one of the most corrupt in USA's history (surpassing even Nixon's I believe?)
(need links?)
They said he was going to ruin our country. Didn't happen.
On the contrary, he absolutely did worsen democracy in the USA. Trump's first administration (for anyone paying attention really) was a complete, flaming disaster for anyone who understands even a smidgen of politics & reality.
One example out of VERY many is how Trump, with the help of McConnel before him, managed to stack the supreme court with white nationalists, such as Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, previously stonewalling a completely legit center-right candidate FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR under Obama, i.e. Merrick Garland.
Just look at how those latest candidates specifically pledged to uphold Roe vs. Wade in their congressional discourses, then COMPLETELY betrayed that trust, recently.
This is not even to speak of what a complete traitor to democracy nakedly right-winger justice Thomas has been; he and his wife, in fact. Would you like some specific links as to their completely hypocritical & traitorous actions?
They said he would lead us into nuclear war. Didn't happen.
Bro, that's been said about almost every candidate since early in the cold war.
And actually IT HELD SOME REALITY!
en.wikipedia.org
They said he would ruin economy. Didn't happen.
Not that I'm an economist, but it actually DID, yes.
Remember when Trump dismantled the preventative disease task force early in?
Remember when a rogue coronavirus (which Xi did everything he could to suppress news about from day one) changed-up pretty much
everything from 2020-on?
Corollary such as housing market predation, housing prices artificially rising, and why food costs almost *DOUBLE* today what it did only a few years ago?
These are mostly symptoms of a lack of regulations at the state & federal level which otherwise tend to happen in a healthy, functioning democracy, Charles.
Do you want to know why those things have been eroded so badly, leading us to why life in the States (and arguably other nations) has gotten so increasingly f'd up & more costly in recent decades? Well, think money! Money, money, money, money and those who pursue it, and how it buys votes, and how it cripples regulations over time.
At the end of the day-- it takes an informed, regular voting base to preserve a solid democracy, or didn't you know that?
TBH, I don't think we even have that in the USA, anymore.
As in-- people no longer fundamentally understand the actual tenets of democracy, and just assume that they have 'automatic democratic rights.'
LOL, no,
that's not how it actually works