y there's some assumption that I differ on or I have a different view of human beings or something. But they're not crazy.

So here's one of his not-crazy opinions that I really liked. When you know President Trump is often being accused of having autocratic tendencies, meaning that if there was any way he could he'd stay in office forever. If there was any way he could he would become a dictator. Right? That's one of the biggest complaints about Trump.

But then as Ian Bremmer points out, the pandemic came. Has there ever been a more perfect situation for a would-be dictator to take power? Never. Never. This is as good as it gets. If you want to be a dictator, you want a pandemic. Pandemic is perfect for taking over power. You just say, hey, it's an emergency. You know, martial law. I guess I've got all the power now. It's for your own good. Perfect situation.

And it wasn't like the president had to make some kind of snap decision. It wasn't like he made the wrong decision. Oops, I wish I'd gone the other way. I could have been more of a dictator. Because the pandemic was sort of a slow-moving. Even though it was kind of fast, it was slow enough that he would have made the connection. Hey, I can start now and become a dictator. And we saw nothing like that.

As Ian Bremmer points out, you saw Trump doing the opposite of trying to consolidate power. Literally the opposite. He didn't use the War Powers Act as much as his critics think he should. He let the states make lots of decisions, allowed them to have the power. And his biggest critics are complaining that he didn't take enough dictator control and let everybody kind of do their own thing. Didn't have even Joe Biden wants to be more of an autocrat and have more of a federal guidelines that the states would have to abide by in some fashion.

So I thought that was a great point. If you thought that President Trump would take the first chance to become a dictator, you can't think that anymore. Because the first chance came and went and he didn't. He didn't even take a sniff at it. It'd be one thing if he sort of took a run at it. You know, like he felt it down a little bit, dipped his toe in or tried to see if he could get a little dictator stuff going. Nothing. He actually ran in the opposite direction of states' rights.

Now we'll always argue whether that was the right choice and his critics will say he should have been more directive. But what you can't argue with anymore is the thought that if he had an opening he would try to become a dictator. You can rule that out because he has the opening right now still. I mean still, right? If he decided, hey, I'm going to consolidate a lot more power, he can still do it because people are still worried about COVID. He just has apparently no interest in it.

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