Oxymandias wrote:i am aware. But it is interesting in the points it provides that may contract your own points. I think you should reconsider the article and read through it again. There are lots of good points in there and although I don't think the author believes that a autocracy will happen he certainly shows that there is a significant possibility of it happening.
I already said the article made some good points, but it also misses some crucial differences to the countries it compares the US to. For starters, the US is a mature, large economy at the technological frontier. It will not experience a commodity boom or catch-up growth like Turkey/Venezuela/Russia did. The lives of ordinary Americans won't drastically improve under Trump, no matter his policies, which are more likely to be detrimental anyway. Second, muzzling the free press has been a critical move in the aforementioned countries, something that is not going to happen in America with its long tradition of free speech. I think it's more likely the federal government will become increasingly dysfunctional and the US will fall apart in the long term than that the US will become a centralized authoritarian state.