US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns

Canadian political scientist warns in op ed of Trumpist threat to American democracy and possible effect on northern neighbor

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The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the collapse of American democracy".

We mustn't dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine," Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.