You think that is a good thing? Read my about page. I warned back in 2001 that the pattern which I saw developing was ominous. Only a prepared electorate could avoid it. Lucius Cornelius Sulla succeeded for only a short time, but his success decreed the end of the Republic. Hence I adopted the screenname you see today.
Carrie_okie is telling you what to expect in part because he's rightly skeptical, but also because he knows history.
Just as in Rome in 85 BC, a lot of people feel we need a dictator at this point in order to swing the pendulum back. You do want a king (or dictator). But it won't work because the genie released by the last four presidents will be even more released.
The Progs have always wanted power invested in government, and it won't matter whether or not it's Trump or a Dhimi-crat, they will have it. Hence Trump's free media. The Left constantly talks of economic greed when it derides conservatives, but stupid conservatives almost always fail to counter with the Left's greed for power.
Nothing that Trump has said is against using power greedily. Hence, he's the Prog's agent. Conservatives who fail to comprehend this are falling into the Prog trap. They are claiming to hate Trump much like Brer Rabbit begged Brer Fox not to throw him into that briar patch.
Eeeevil dictator Trump will be enforcing the law and renegotiating trade deals to make America great again :). That’s hardly a traditional fascist dictatorship though.
Spare me your patronizing.
Like Von Hayek’s English socialists, you do not perceive the only difference between your current advocacy and the opposition you fight against is time.
Pretending Trump will become a despot, because he has the temerity to actually win against his ideological opponents is a gross mischaracterization of an “American” personified, and a myopic failure to recognize our status quo.
Pining for the Republic of the Founders is abject foolishness as our electorate is comprised of more than 50% women, unlike those Founders. The adage of trading liberty for security is a fact of life for us as women by their very nature have always been predisposed to prize security more than liberty.
Conservatives must find some middle ground, and as things currently stand, we have precious little to bargain with.