The reason we didn’t have a dictatorship was because of the character of George Washington. Foreign governments expected him to go Cromwell because a) it was very recent in people’s memory, & b) some of the same revolutionary principles overlapped ! He was begged by some during the war to make himself military dictator. Washington maintained the preeminence of civilian control even when doing so worked against the short term interests of the cause.
I see no George Washingtons anywhere not Flynn & not Trump even though I like and respect both.
One should read about the French Revolution; “liberals in the classical sense” got out maneuvered (Thinking about Lafayette !) by the radicals and look what happened. Revolutions have a way of escaping control. Historically most revolutions make things worse in the short term and not that much better in the long term, we were the exception.
“ we were the exception”
We certainly were. Our founding fathers were highly educated and were very knowledgeable about various rules of government. From early Greece and Rome all the way up through various European styles. And when they chose to establish a Republic under our Constitution, it was and still is the most remarkable government ever established.