Snyder seems to think that in Donald Trump another furher may be emerging. He had no such concerns about Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. Democracy against all odds, lawfare and bullets gave us Donald Trump. Ergo, Democracy is alive and well in America. I didn’t vote for Donald Trump (or Harris!). But Snyder should be grateful now. Not for Trump necessarily, but for Democracy, supposedly his number one concern. Cherry picking Trump’s theatrical quotes is a bit much, and may show Snyder’s own predilection for conspiracy theories of a kind.

We should always be on the alert for lawless dictators, yes, obviously. Europe produced Hitler after all . But Hitler was rather unique in modern Euro times. He was one wicked genocidal man. And we roundly defeated him.

I fear dictators of the Left far more. They were legion, truly “Strong Men” like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot —who left us unimaginable numbers of the dead.