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One day is all it takes for a dictator to destroy a democracy...
In that case, let's hope he's an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he's gone people all agree that this wasn't a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.
When has the death of a dictator by old age ever defaulted back to democracy? There's a lot of people helping him, I'm sure more than a handful are eager to step into his shoes.
Franco in Spain. Not saying that's a good plan to go with, but it has happened.
Ah yeah, I forget about him. But yeah, not a great plan.