Trump's "dictator" trial balloon reveals his admin's new customer service model: authoritarianism by popular demand. When MAGA whispers "maybe," the White House answers "definitely."
The Threat to Democracy Index hit 56% this month as Trump replaces truth-tellers with propagandists - firing the BLS chief on 8/18 for accurate data, installing conspiracy theorist EJ Antoni to cook books. Now DOJ weaponizes grand juries to chase Obama-era ghosts while Trump's DNI peddles treason fantasies. Democracy dies by a thousand "yes men."
56% isn't a margin of error—it's a margin of terror.