If Trump were as authoritarian as some people seem to think (and not just a bumbling idiot & egomaniac, as I tend to think), it seems like he would have used the pandemic to exert real power instead of what he actually did, which is sit around watching cable news and tweeting.

Obviously, these dumb attempts to rewrite the election as stolen are disturbing and problematic (though they'll fail) but the dude's ego is the size of Trump Tower. He's grasping.

And not just the pandemic. He also could have used the riots this summer to impose martial law and he just talked about without actually doing much of anything. He's a very bad dictator.

Someone else on here said Trump is Berlusconi, not Mussolini, and that is exactly right.