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Talk of a Trump dictatorship charges America's political debate

By Peter Baker
New York Times·
8 mins to read

When a historian wrote an essay the other day warning that the election of former US president Donald Trump next year could lead to dictatorship, one of Trump’s allies quickly responded by calling for the historian to be sent to prison.

It almost sounds like a parody: the response to concerns about dictatorship is to prosecute the author. But Trump and his allies are not going out of their way to reassure those worried about what a new term would

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