Comment by Arubis

10 hours ago

My strong suspicion is that the current POTUS will leave the White House in a box. My hope is that this precedes the next election cycle.

The standard dictatorial takeover of a democracy is to keep the elections and the presidency, but to add a supreme leader above the president, similar to what Iran or Russia or China is doing. So Trump would no longer be president, he would be supreme leader joining what the other world powers are doing.