New poll reveals Republicans are authoritarian curious, while Americans are starkly divided on Trump’s 2020 guilt

The Joe Biden presidential campaign is positioning the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy. But a new poll suggests that defending America’s constitutional system of checks and balances is no longer an electoral slam dunk.

A startling 39 percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Republicans, think it’s a decent idea for Donald Trump to act as a dictator for a day to begin his prospective second term, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst survey released Wednesday.

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    475 months ago

    Ok so we’re up to 40% open fascists, regardless of if they have enough functioning brain cells to realize that’s what they are.

    Yep. I’m sure we can vote our way out of this, just like all the other times that literally never worked!

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      125 months ago

      It worked in 2020. Democrats even overperformed in 2022. We outnumber the fascists. We need to outvote them.