I wasn't comparing that to anything by any other president. I compared your hyperbolic bilge that Trump is a dictator to the same claims by righties about Obama. You tribalists are flip sides of the same coin. You behave just like the Tea Partiers you disparaged a decade ago.
Just to be clear on your other assertion: Trump has done nothing on the order of giving arms to the Iranians and subsidizing murdering, rapist thugs in a Latin American nation. Unlike you and most people, I have a memory that extends past five years ago. I recall The Cult of Ronnie. I remember all the tall tales he used to repeat, even after being told they were not true. I recall all the out-and-out crooks and shysters under his watch, who put Scott Pruitt and the recently-resigned Labor Secretary to shame. I recall a ridiculous, staged "invasion" of a little island to gin up support at home and distract from the massacre of Marine barracks in Lebanon. Shall I go on? Memory and a knowledge of history allows me to distinguish the ridiculous self-congratulatory excesses of our Reality Star President from policies and executive actions that actually undermined what you might call our "democratic values."
A few other random things that Reality Star President isn't doing:
- Proposing we add 23 Supreme Court justices so that he can effectively create a court that rules in the ways he wishes.
- Moved ethnic groups by force from their homes, to destinations thousands miles away...
- by openly flouting the Supreme Court's ruling
- Throwing people into internment camps
- Assassinating an American citizen
- Siccing the IRS on political opponents
- Concocting a sequence of military events, and lying to the American people, to get us into a war with North Vietnam
Shall I go on?
Are some of Trump's narcissistic public performances unprecedented? Absolutely. Is he grabbing power in the fashion of an actual dictator? No. Have we seen presidents grab and wield power to degrees that we have not seen from Trump? Absolutely. Some of those examples happened during your lifetime. Were you hyperventilating about those at the time and declaring those presidents dictators?