If Trump wins, US would look like Putin and Orbán’s ‘illiberal democracy’, Raskin says

Democratic congressman invokes strongmen Putin and Orban to characterize the threat posed by a second Trump presidency

If Donald Trump wins a second presidency, the US would resemble the authoritarian regimes of Vladimir Putin's Russia and Viktor Orban's Hungary, a prominent Democratic congressman predicted Sunday.

During an appearance on MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki, Jamie Raskin invoked the names of some of the globe's most powerful strongmen political leaders to characterize the threat posed by Trump's status as the leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination despite the mound of legal problems with which he is grappling.