The History of Dictatorship

Michael Beshloss: As someone who is black and an out gay married man, the prospects of what you're talking about are terrifying. He says that if 44,000 votes were changed in certain states in 2020, we would now be living under Donald Trump as president - a presidential dictatorship. And remember these third parties? For instance, there was a third party candidate, Eugene McCarthy, who was on the ballot in New York state; Jimmy Carter finally got him off the ballot. So all I'm saying is you've got one candidate who says, I want to be a dictator. There's a very good chance Gerald Ford would have won just because the presence of 130 party, a third