How Exactly Would Donald Trump End American Democracy?

If there’s one thing that we’re supposed to know about this election, it is that democracy is on the ballot.

Joe Biden and other Democrats say it all the time, and so does Liz Cheney. According to the former congresswoman, the U.S. is “sleepwalking into dictatorship,” and the accomplished author and historian Robert Kagan wrote a much-discussed piece for the Washington Post contending, as the headline put it, that “a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.”