Clinton’s Portrayal of Trump as Dictator Aims at the Left and Right
Mrs. Clinton returned to that theme on Thursday, and said Mr. Trumps proclamation should set off alarm bells for all of us.
Remember, she said, our founders fought a revolution and wrote a Constitution so America would never be a nation where one person had all the power.
Mr. Trump and his campaign have batted away suggestions that he holds antidemocratic views. Paul Manafort, Mr. Trumps campaign chairman, said on Thursday that the Democrats new attempts to label Mr. Trump a dictator-in-waiting signaled desperation and were an effort to counter his rousing convention speech last week in Cleveland.
In that address, Mr. Trump offered himself to the country as a law-and-order candidate and a champion of working people in a nation under siege. Democrats, Mr. Manafort said, were trying to attack Mr. Trump to skirt responsibility for the conditions he is now campaigning against.
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