Jason Stanley

So they want a full one party dictatorship, whether it's gonna continue to be led by a dictator like Trump or not is something we're gonna have to see.

But they seem to believe they have that done.

I don't believe they do.

I think they have moved too quickly.

Yeah, great question.

So what we have is we have a kind of electoral autocracy, as Ruth Ben-Ghiat said on your show.

And the big problem with autocracy, with the kind of dictatorship that the United States is leaning into, is the successor problem.

How do you appoint a successor?

It's all like a mess and a disaster and reshuffling when there is a successor dispute.

Right.

And sometimes those successor disputes roll into things.

Things might turn into a democracy.

Other times it's just like someone even worse.

So so the true answer to your question is we don't know.

We do know that Trump is 79, that that, you know, if he were 65, I think he would be in power for the rest of his life.

And and the United States would be, you know, would be a straightforward choice.

a dictator ruled country, but he's 79.

And so since he's 79, you can be sure that there are successor disputes happening behind the scenes.

This machine thinks it's got the whole

set up on lockdown.