Comment by mrits
9 hours ago
Dictators typically don't win popular votes legitimately. Dictators typically don't have the courts constantly overruling them.
Europeans tend to have very little idea how the US government functions. Trump is able to do what he does simply because the people voted for a congress that supports him.
> Dictators typically don't win popular votes legitimately.
It also isn’t how you win in the US. The winner of the popular vote was Trump this last round (unlike his first term), but with a far-from-resounding 1.5%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
I'm sure this is trivia on the other side of the world but we learn this in 2nd grade