Nayib Bukele's fascist dictatorship in El Salvador

The key point to understand about Bukele's dictatorship in El Salvador -- and Bukele himself brags that he is a dicator, by the way -- is that he has maintained a state of emergency in the country for years now, in which no one is entitled to due process by law. No legal defense, no court proceeding, you are in jail indefinitely, if Bukele says so. In other words, Bukele is the law in El Salvador. He has also rounded up 2% of the country and warehoused them in concentration camps which he now wants Donald Trump's neo-Nazi regime to help him finance, and Mr. Trump is playing along quite happily, too! Bukele has bulldozed the country's Constitution so he can stay President indefinitely -- no wonder Donald Trump loves this guy! -- and replaced the entire Supreme Court of the country and its prosecutors with close personal allies, completely under his control. Sound at all familiar? Of course it does. Nayib Bukele is Donald Trump's role model. Now, like rather a lot of fascist dictators historically, Bukele is, actually, very popular with his people. Mussolini, Franco and Hitler were all very popular, as well. After all, it's best to get along with a leader who can put you in prison forever, anytime he feels like it, isn't it? So, you might as well get along with him naturally, so, you're, inevitably, rather better off liking him very much, aren't you? So, you love the guy! And, they do! Now, the problem Donald Trump has in mimicking Bukele's regime, is the sheer size of the United States, and its diversity. It simply would be rather difficult to get all the states to play ball, let alone all the people in them. While a few million people can be controlled pretty well with a large military, hundreds of millions cannot be. So, Donald Trump's fond dream of being America's Nayib Bukele may be just that -- a pipe dream. Let's all hope so!