Michael Beschloss Compares Trump to Mussolini

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BESCHLOSS: "Well, if you love Mussolini, you will love what Donald Trump is talking about for 2025. Mussolini followed the unitarian executive theory, too, which meant total power to the dictator, no constraints. This is about as un-American, I think you will all agree, as anything I’ve ever heard. I mean, the reason why this country was founded was as a rebuke to the British king. We wanted to develop a system where you could not have a king, you could not have a dictator. Power was under constraint. When you were in Tuscaloosa, Joe, I’m sure that you talked about, as you have ever since, the fact that there are checks and balances, three branches of government. That’s all James Madison, who used to be a conservative hero. Now comes along Donald Trump, the first major candidate in American history to say outright, 'I want a presidential dictatorship.' I can’t think of anything that’s more out of the American tradition."