The US has been putting right wing dictators into power all over the world and all through it's existence.
In retrospect, the natural endstate of that was always them doing it to themselves.
Bush Jr. really turbocharged this process, and ever since that (and probably going much further back) it's only really been going one way with occasional pauses, but never any movement away from all power being centered around the president and the White House.
So here we are. There are no more democratic superpowers, and we'll see how long smaller nations can hold on after that.
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