Trump resisted handing over power after the 2020 election, and to date, he has faced no significant legal consequences for those actions.

Given that lack of accountability, is it unreasonable to suggest the stakes will be even higher in 2028? If there were no consequences last time, why wouldn’t there be an even greater effort to challenge the outcome, should the need arise?

This isn’t a binary issue of whether the president is all-powerful or powerless. It’s a spectrum, and since 2020, we’ve objectively moved further toward the "all-powerful" end. The absence of meaningful checks and consequences has set a precedent, making it harder to draw the line in the future.

> Trump would not have been forced to hand over power

Can you re-read your sentence and ask yourself if this is a normal thing to say in a working democracy? That this is even on the table means Trump IS a dictator. He was just too dumb to know how to make it work in 2020. From a non American lens, it actually looks like you handed power to a dictator because he won "fair and square" this time. I have trouble believing the US will have another genuine vote in my lifetime.

Courts and Congress are a main check: he appointed 3 Justices, and Clarence Thomas is corrupt + qanon wife, that's 4 of 9. Already when congress has gone against him like with the shutdown he wanted at the end of Biden's term, Musk, the richest man in the world, threatened to primary them, and we'll see much more of that.

Nazi salute Musk also did a $1 million a day lottery system for republican voter registrations with some loopholes and got away with it.

We're pretty fucked.