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Trump was a "dictator"?

When Biden took office earlier this year, someone of some visibility twitted "we toppled a dictator". Many other people repeated that sentiment.

Many people responded by making fun of such a tweet, about how voting someone else into office via a completely normal presidential election is, by definition, not "toppling" anybody. "Toppling a dictator" would mean a forceful removal of the head of state, usually via military force. It does not mean a normal presidential election held at its normal time, to normally elect the next president, as has been done for centuries. The Democratic Party surely tried to "topple" Trump from office via a kangaroo court, but they failed (because the system actually still somewhat works in the United States, as the far left has yet not achieved enough power).

But anyway, if I could, I would really like to ask that person who wrote that tweet why she thinks that Trump was a "dictator" when he was in office. How was he a "dictator"?

He didn't do anything that would have bypassed the government of the country in a manner that's not allowed for the president. He signed some executive orders, but those are completely normal and completely legal for the president to do, and all presidents have done it (and, in fact, Trump was one of the presidents with the least amount of executive orders signed). Several of the laws he proposed were struck down by the parliament, and some of his executive orders were likewise struck down by the supreme court, but that's completely normal. This is the normal "checks and balances" system of the American government. Almost every single president before him experienced the same thing. There's nothing abnormal or unusual about it. The different branches of government keep each other in check.

The far left will claim that Trump broke the law several times, but even in the few cases that they might have some semblance of a point, they were not things that could be considered actions indicative of a dictatorship. He didn't order the police or the military to take over the Senate and enact unconstitutional or otherwise illegal laws and mandates against the will of the Senate. And no, he did not lead an "attempted coup d'etat" (anybody that thinks that a group of unarmed clowns trashing the Capitol building was an attempted "coup d'etat" is seriously deranged.) The entire impeachment was even more of a farce and kangaroo court than the first one, and a complete disgrace of the government, and anybody who takes it seriously should have their heads checked.

So, what exactly made Trump a "dictator"? The far left just built a "dictator" out of thin air. Then they proceeded to "topple" him... by the regular democratic voting system.

By that logic every single time a new President of the United States has entered office via the normal voting process, the previous president was "toppled".

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