The moment is ripe

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51. We disagree here. Two points:

First, donnie is blatantly ignoring multiple laws and multiple court orders and objections from ordinary people. He has complete contempt for democrats and any Republican who dares cross him he threatens to primary and/or get the proud boys to make death threats. He is a dictator, even if he's in the early stages where it *might* be possible to dislodge him before he (or an authoritarian Republican Party, anyway) is permanently entrenched.

Generally, people see Hitler as becoming a dictator the moment he became chancellor, though his power was not entrenched until the enabling act was passed. We're in that stage here. He's a dictator, though he has yet to fully consolidate his power.

Second, semantics aside, I think it's helpful politically for us to call him a dictator. I think that will boost resentment and outrage and protests. We've been calling him a dictator-wannabe or aspiring dictator or someone having authoritarian tendencies or such for years now, and it's not been very effective.

I think calling him a dictator, even some may disagree that that's accurate, will help light a fire under people and get them out into the streets to protest.