Donald Trump, if he manages to return to the White House, will take revenge for the treatment meted out to him after his defeat against Joe Biden. Revelations on the "feud" that the tycoon intends to consume and warnings about the risk of a dictatorship that would have global consequences, from the fate of NATO to that of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, are multiplying in the American media. Some voices are also being raised from the right: «One of the things we are witnessing today is a sort of sleepwalking towards dictatorship in the United States», warned the former number three of the Republican Party in the House Liz Cheney, daughter of the former Vice President Dick , hoping for a Democratic victory in 2024.
The latest alarm bell comes from the Washington Post, in a long editorial signed by the authoritative analyst Robert Kagan entitled «Trump's dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending." According to the expert, after Trump wins Super Tuesday in March and has the nomination in his pocket, the entire Republican Party and the financial establishment will fall behind him and, once in the White House, it will be difficult to contain him.
«Today we are closer to that point than we have ever been – he writes – and yet we continue to slide towards dictatorship, still hoping for some intervention that will allow us to escape the consequences of our collective cowardice, our complacent, willful ignorance and, above all, our lack of a deep commitment to liberal democracy."
His plan, according to the WP, is to transform the Justice Department to prosecute political opponents like Biden and "traitors" like former Justice Secretary William Barr or former Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who called him " an aspiring dictator"; invoke the Insurrection Act on the first day of his mandate to deploy the military against civil demonstrations ; dismiss unwelcome officials en masse; create an organization that grants teaching licenses only to professors who "embrace patriotic values and the American way of life." , with house-to-house roundups and arrests of illegal immigrants and the closure of the borders with Mexico.
