'Our democracy will be gone': Critics raise alarm over authoritarianism if Trump is reelected
Anybody who doubts that American democracy could fall if President Donald Trump wins reelection should take it from someone who knows, John Dean says. He believes a budding dictator occupies the White House.
"I worked for the last authoritarian president, and he was dangerous enough," said Dean, the Watergate cover-up co-conspirator who served as chief White House counsel to Richard Nixon and testified against him during Senate hearings. "Trump makes Nixon look like a choirboy."
"If we get four more years of him," Dean said, "then our democracy will be gone."
The notion of a U.S. president bringing about the nation's downfall could be easily dismissed as breathless hyperbole, business as usual in America's super-heated political climate.
But Dean and other critics of the Trump administration - former government officials, historians who've tracked the rise of dictatorships in other countries - see an increasingly bleak future for America if voters don't come to
