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(my attempt to imitate the preachy introductions to The Twilight Zone by Rod Serling)...
So what happens when people forget what they learn in high school civics? They sacrifice their essential liberty for vague promises of revenge, economic gain, and national greatness from someone who short-circuits rule of law and checks and balances that are all that keep a heritage of democracy into dictatorship and despotism. They get a demagogue no better as President than he was as a businessman. They get someone who admires foreign dictators more than he admires Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt (both of them). He lies, he cheats, and he steals.
People have gotten leaders like him in the past, and the result has never been good whether the leader is a socialist or a fascist.
Vote for someone like this pitiable fellow and your country ends up in The Twilight Zone.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.