Is Trump A Dictator

Is Trump A Dictator

The biggest complaint I hear about Trump, is that he is a dictator. 

My answer is; That is his job requirement. To direct or dictate the priorities he has outlined, to direct the numerous departments and agencies under the executive branch. 

However, let us look at known Dictators of the 20th century. You have Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Adolph Hitler. And I could go on and list many more in the past century, and combined, they have killed more people than voted in the last presidential election.  All these people had one thing in common. That was they had the backing of all the State Apparatuses. From domestic security, to international security. From the educational institutions, to the penal institutions. There was not any government agency these people didn’t keep under control. And what ever they dictated was carried out by the appropriate state apparatus. If one of these men wanted you silenced, you were silence, without reservation. And if you disagreed, you were not just fired, in most accounts.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump cannot make a decision, without it being leaked, contested, or ignored. Don’t sound like a dictatorship to me. 

Don’t get me wrong, I think it is entirely possible that a dictatorship could arise in the United States government. In fact, I think that day is getting dangerously close. One does not have to look very far in history to see disturbing trends. Like an Internal Revenue Service, targeting groups based on ideological leanings. Or a DOJ and FBI, whitewashing one candidates’ transgression, while secretly using the powerful tools of surveillance on the other candidate. Or endless open-ended investigations into an elected official life. Or the rapid expansion of intelligence gathering agencies. 

That leads to the truth of Dictatorships. You do not need an individual to head up a dictatorship, only the collusion of the apparatuses of state, in like-thinking individuals’ serving their own self-interest. The State will appoint its own figurehead. Isn’t that the way of all feudal systems of government? And feudalism is the final result of all corrupt governments.