Post-WWII US President most likely to be a dictator

The post-WWII President likeliest to be a dictator is...

  • Harry S. Truman

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Votes: 5 3.6%
  • John F. Kennedy

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Votes: 17 12.3%
  • Richard Nixon

    Votes: 71 51.4%
  • Gerald Ford

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Jimmy Carter

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Ronald Reagan

    Votes: 6 4.3%
  • George H. W. Bush

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • Bill Clinton

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • George W. Bush

    Votes: 15 10.9%
  • Barack Obama

    Votes: 17 12.3%

  • Total voters
    138
While FDR did manage to stay in by sheer force of popularity, it's worth noting that there were hard limits to his power; the court packing scandal was a fairly visible ceiling on his power, and without war exigencies, he would no longer be able to exercise even the level of power he had wielded.
 
well technically speaking..... the continuation of government plans held by nearly every President during the Cold War if not all, called for more or less a temporary Dictatorship to be established. So really, if you have any exchange, you have a dictatorship from that President, the question is if they give the power back once things settle back down.
 
Nixon had personality traits (paranoia, an anti-social personality, lust for power, etc.) similar to those of many dictators, so he'd probably be the most likely.
 
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