Step 1. People are angry

Step 2. Some weirdo gets elected President

Step 3. He starts threatening judges who rule against him, urging his supporters to harass them

Step 4. He starts suing newspapers and journalists, calling them fake news

Step 5 Tells his supporters that black people eat pets and are part of a global plot to replace Tunisians

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/23/tunisia-kais-saied-racism-migrants-black-tunisians/

Step 6. Calls the opposition is the enemy from within, the opposition supports terrorism and must be stopped

Step 7 . One night, he sends masked thugs to surround parliament and arrest the opposition

Step 8. His supporters are happy and defend him

Step 9. Dictatorship

Welcome to Tunisia.

Americans are at step 6. They just don’t know it yet. They are deers in the headlights.

Let’s hope Trump is too dumb to actually pull that off.