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Chauncey DeVega

Do Americans want a dictator? Maybe

Following his rambling, incoherent speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that his opponents often call him “a horrible dictator-type person.” He continued, “But sometimes, you need a dictator.”

He is certainly trying to govern as one. Under Trump, the Department of Justice has begun targeting Democratic elected officials such as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, as well as private citizens who oppose the ICE occupation of Minneapolis and the administration’s increasingly reckless and violent mass deportation campaign.

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