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.

  • Flying Squid
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    4111 months ago

    A lot of people want to be controlled.

      • @Riccosuave
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        711 months ago

        Bruh…I upvoted the fuck out of this, but lemmy tell ya, I didn’t feel good about it 😂

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        You could modify the end to say “Daddy Trump,” sell this at a Trump rally, and I think we’re at the point where large numbers of those people would unironically buy it, because that’s literally their fetish.