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Take a look at some of the biggest moments in U.S. politics from 2023 with TIME Senior Politics reporter Brian Bennett._  by [Philip Elliott](https://time.com/author/philip-elliott/)  ## Philip Elliott Senior Correspondent Jan 1, 2024 12:00 PM UTC Take a look at some of the biggest moments in U.S. politics from 2023 with TIME Senior Politics reporter Brian Bennett.  by [Philip Elliott](https://time.com/author/philip-elliott/)  ## Philip Elliott Senior Correspondent Jan 1, 2024 12:00 PM UTC _This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up_ [_here_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=dc-brief&source=dc%5Fonsite) _to get stories like this sent to your inbox._ It was meant, as ever, as a softball question for his pal, but former President Donald Trump couldn’t just take the gimme from Sean Hannity. The Fox News host wanted to bat down the ample reporting that Trump and his allies were already laying the groundwork for a return to power, replete with penance for his foes, punishment for his enemies, and penalties for those who stood in his way. “Under no circumstances, you’re promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked Trump in Davenport, Iowa, back on Dec. 5. But the former President, as ever, could not help himself. “Except for day one,” Trump [replied](https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-iowa-town-hall-d9cad413851b60f6c0abd2a564d86338). It was a stunning [declaration](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4343945-hannity-town-hall-trump-iowa-live-updates/), one that Democrats thought might be the key disqualifying piece of [evidence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0iAmz9iLM) in their case for ensuring Trump never again be allowed near the White House. Yet at that exact moment, the prestigious Des Moines _Register_ poll was in the field, and what it [found](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/17/vermin-trump-iowa-republicans/71950815007/) complicates the critics’ read of Trump’s answer. Among likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers, the poll found, a full one-fifth—[19%](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/caucus/2023/12/17/iowa-poll-republicans-not-backing-away-from-donald-trump-amid-escalating-rhetoric-2024-election/71882561007/)—believe such a quest for vengeance makes it _more_ likely that they would support Trump. The survey also found a full 14% were more inclined to back Trump based on his lies alleging fraud in the 2020 election justified his terminating parts of the Constitution. More broadly, 50% said Trump’s plans for "sweeping raids, giant camps and mass deportations" made him a more attractive candidate, and a solid 43% were more likely to vote for Trump based on his comments that "the radical left thugs that live like vermin" in the country needed to be rooted out. And 42% apparently experienced a similar surge of support when told that Trump has said immigrants who enter the United States illegally are "poisoning the blood.” Put simply: Trump’s most audacious [aspirations](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/us/politics/trump-rhetoric-fascism.html) for an American autocracy are not costing him with the voters he needs the most at this moment, just weeks before Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina prove to be his first test of a comeback. In fact, such comments may help Trump build a [firewall](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/politics/trump-iowa-poll-desantis-haley.html) against challengers like former South Carolina Gov. Nikki [Haley](https://time.com/6343669/ron-desantis-nikki-haley-fourth-republican-debate/), Florida Gov. Ron [DeSantis](https://time.com/6282255/ron-desantis-elon-musk-campaign-culture-war/), and tech bro Vivek [Ramaswamy](https://time.com/6316072/vivek-ramaswamy-donald-trump-maga-heir/). All the while, Trump is singing the praises of [dictators](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-praises-dictators-rails-immigrants-sparking-backlash/story?id=105725220) and setting off alarms among [scholars](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/11/donald-trump-dictatorship-president-election-retribution/) of autocracy. For many Americans, the four years of the Trump administration were an abomination, an abnormality that could be treated as a blip of lapsed judgment that involved millions of voters. [Maybe](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/fear-of-a-female-president/497564/) it was the nation’s deep-seeded sexism manifesting itself in a contest between a deeply problematic Trump but a decades-despised Hillary Clinton back in 2016\. [Maybe](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election) Trump got a devious advantage thanks to Russian interference. [Maybe](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/) it was a Justice Department lapse in judgment to reopen the probe of Clinton’s emails in the final push toward Election Day. The [phrase](https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/) _This Is Not Who We Are_ was on liberals’ lips for the entirety of Trump’s rise to and execution of power. The [political violence](https://time.com/5927664/capital-siege-trump-supporters/) in Washington seen during Trump’s final days in office drew plenty of co-signers to that belief. But, in the almost three years since, polling has continued to suggest this uneasy truth: _Maybe It Was Who We Were—And Are._ The explanations are as plentiful as they are complicated. Trump understood that, for a slice of Americans, the changes—some say _progress_—the country has seen in achieving greater equity and prosperity have not benefited everyone equally. Shifting norms and expectations left many white, working-class voters aggravated and feeling disaffected. The rise of social media made it easier for these like-minded isolates to find each other and amplify their perspective. In other words, the components of a healthy democracy—a more-level field, demands for inclusion, and free debate of ideas—were turned against democracy itself. The intellectual architect of Vladimir Putin’s world, Alexander Dugin, [heralded](https://www.economist.com/erasmus/2016/11/20/russian-anti-liberals-love-donald-trump-but-it-may-not-be-entirely-mutual) the election of Trump as evidence that “the American people themselves have started the revolution against precisely the aspect of the US which we hated.” Trump is simply delivering on his promises to dismantle the foundational pieces of American life. For instance, Trump has [vowed](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110531998908318312) to appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Bidens, a very-Soviet move to weaponize the justice system against former foes as just desserts for Trump’s current legal woes. Where his lawyers checked his impulses the first time, his allies are [plotting](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/politics/trump-2025-lawyers.html) a more political framework than a legal one if given a second try. The makeup of his fantasy-league Cabinet puts [loyalty](https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/trump-loyalty-cabinet-2025-carlson-miller-bannon) over competence. Thousands of federal workers who [predated](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/01/trump-second-term/?itid=lk%5Finline%5Fmanual%5F4) him would have to pass [loyalty tests](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees) to keep their positions. His deputies would spend untold hours prosecuting or suing [journalists](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term) who are critical of their actions. He’s even [floated](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/) the idea of executing his one-time top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley. Globally, this has been the trend in recent decades. Freedom House, a think tank dedicated to countering autocracy, [reports](https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2023/marking-50-years) that 80% of the world’s population lives under systems that are considered not free or only partially so. On the world stage, freedom is in its 17th year of net decline, with press freedoms facing legitimate threats in at least 157 countries. Which, sadly, makes Trump’s declaration that he would punish U.S. journalists for reporting less of an outlier. Anyone objectively looking at Washington right now understands why, for those simply glancing at the headlines in particular, Trump’s threats may not seem much worse than the status quo. This Congress is on track to be the [least-effective](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/least-productive-congress-since-great-depression%5Fn%5F65553d38e4b0e4767012b6df) legislature since the Great Depression. An embarrassing [22](https://www.congress.gov/public-laws/118th-congress) pieces of legislation got across the finish line this year, and some of those were as benign as creating a coin for the Marine Corps’ birthday and renaming V.A. clinics in New Mexico and Michigan. The House left town without any real progress on must-pass spending bills and will return in January with less than two weeks to get its act together. (If [history](https://time.com/6342955/mike-johnson-house-speaker-republicans/) is any guide, this will not go well.) Americans aren’t hiding their retreat toward autocracy. In October, the Public Religion Research Institute published damning [polling](https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented-presidential-election/) that indicated roughly four-in-10 Americans thought the country was so far afield from normal that it was time for a leader who would break the rules to fix the system. Among Republicans, the number almost reached half. The same think tank also found a surge in support for resorting to [political violence](https://time.com/6328179/political-violence-jan-6-extremism/); in March 2021, pollsters found 15% of Americans agreed that violence was merited, a number that rose to 23% this year. Among Republicans, that number reaches 33%. Americans know Trump is a threat to the way things are typically done. CNN’s polling [finds](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/politics/cnn-poll-trump-biden-matchup/index.html) about a one-third of them said they thought Trump respects the rule of law. (Most respondents agreed Biden did.) But The Washington _Post_’s Phil Bump [notes](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/10/lot-americans-embrace-trumps-authoritarianism/) that the survey found a 14-point delta between those who thought Trump would follow the rules and those who were willing to vote for him, even in holding his contempt of rules. They just don’t care. Take South Carolina. CNN’s [polling](https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/americans-democracy-republicans-what-matters/index.html) there found 67% of likely Republican primary voters there say that, even if Trump did try to steal the 2020 election, it doesn’t matter. In CNN’s national [polling](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23936298/cnn-poll-on-gop-primary-voters.pdf), the verdict was similar. Autocracy can have an appeal. It brushes past the pesky system of legal checks, ethical concerns**,** and inefficient experts. No one can credibly say Trump didn’t shake up Washington during his four years here. Given another four to work with—and now knowing how to replace the establishment-minded pests with Yes Men—he could wreak far more havoc. But, should America make the pivot toward an autocratic Trump regime, it will have been because democracy made it possible—not despite it. In a Chicago Council of Global Affairs [poll](https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/most-americans-willing-work-autocrats-protect-us) last year, only 60% of Americans said democracy is the best form of government. A separate Morning Consult [poll](https://pro.morningconsult.com/trend-setters/global-right-wing-authoritarian-test) from a year earlier [identified](https://www.businessinsider.com/26-percent-of-americans-are-right-wing-authoritarian-new-poll-2021-6) more than a quarter of Americans carrying right-wing authoritarian bents. Maybe Trumpism is a symptom of what Americans believe in their cores. A second Trump term may just be a manifestation of why democracy doesn’t always run on autopilot or in a direct line. And, in those cases, true believers in democracy have to accept the results—and who we are. _Make sense of what matters in Washington._ [_Sign up for the D.C. Brief newsletter_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=dc-brief&source=dc%5Fonsite)_._ ## Transcript It's been quite a year in Washington. So let's remind the tape and look at the year the beginning of the year President Biden ended Federal government's covid-19 emergency measures then in February a Chinese spy balloon Traverse the entire United States President Biden have to decide what to do about it. Today, I was briefed on the Ballon d'Or in the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible whole incident led to a major Rift between the US and China to nuclear Powers. They had to find a way back to diplomacy fighting that was she doing thing the Chinese president outside of San Francisco in November to try to re-establish the communication. Biden said that he and Ukraine and push for Congress to send more money for key to defend itself from Russian aggression. Now on Israel fighting came out very strong support of the Israeli government to hackers attacked by Hamas on October 7th in this moment of tragedy. I want to say to them into the world and the terrorists everywhere at the United States stands with Israel will make sure that they have the help their Citizens need and they can continue to defend themselves facing pressure within his own party to call for a ceasefire and Gaza. We need a permanent ceasefire now we need to end the mass murder of Palestinians have Palestinian children So to push forward on its support for Israel and Ukraine Biden, they too dangerous trips one. He took Night Train in the key key to still within rocket distance of Russian Artillery and met with Ukrainian President Vladimir zelensky inside Keith. And then also shortly after the October 7th attacks he flew into Israel to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This was also the year that President Biden announced that he was going to run for a second term. He announced his candidacy for Emily and April and he doesn't have any major challenges not Democratic primaries begin early next year that will create a major moment where Biden campaign will try to set up a contrast. Assuming the from President Trump is Republican nominee. Biden will try to describe the voters that he's been a steady hand and government for 4 years and that Donald Trump bring back a pattern of Destruction or let's talk about Congress this year Republicans took over the house at the beginning of the year and there's been a lot of infighting all year. He got off to a rocky start it took 15 rounds of voting for Kevin McCarthy. Do we elect the speaker in the first place? Not been elected speaker has not been elected not been elected not been elected not been elected. Not been elected. Not been elected not been elected. Well Republicans in the house finally elected as Speaker post-midnight early on Saturday after Kevin McCarthy acquiesce to the demands of the most extreme members of his caucus, but he was ousted nine months later. They were contentious speaker votes in October and Mike Johnson is now the Speaker of the House the car if he didn't even want to finish out his term and after 17 years in Congress said he would resign at the end of the year will be departing the house at the end of this year. I will never ever give up fighting for this country that I love so much and this is also a year when the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Ticketmaster and weather was acting like Monopoly who is Taylor Swift concert and the trouble that are fantastic getting tickets that forced to send it to take up this issue the Senators took that moment to use a lot of Taylor Swift song title funds as a load to Taylor Swift. I will say we know all too. Well, she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers. Taylor Swift to have written a song about this very situation a few million Taylor Swift. This is why we can't have nice things people seem to think that somehow a solution. I think it's it. It's a nightmare dressed like a Daydream Ticketmaster Auto look in the mirror and say I'm the problem, it's me and may House Republicans threatened to let the US default on its debt and a lot of brinkmanship Republicans and the White House came to a deal that prevented the US from defaulting. They punted the ceiling fight two after the presidential election in the beginning of 2025 in September House Republicans decide to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden today. I am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President. Joe Biden House. Republicans are trying to make the case that Joe Biden somehow profited from his son Hunter Biden's overseas business deal, but so far there hasn't been evidence of that. Also in September. Democratic senator Bob Menendez who represents New Jersey was indicted on federal corruption charges prosecutor filed the charges. They also showed photographs of gold bars and stacks of cash. The prosecutors say were bribed the Menendez and then there's George Santa's the first-term Republican from New York was expelled from Congress in December. It took three votes to get there in the end 105 Republicans joined Democrats in the house to expel Santa's. There were concerns over him fabricating his resume lying about his past and also he faces federal charges for money laundering Dept of public funds and making false statements Santos denies wrongdoing and hundreds of requests record personalized videos on the website Cameo. My favorite song is definitely going to be trouble trouble when there are big changes in the Senate this year Senator Dianne Feinstein died after a groundbreaking Thirty years in the Senate California governor Gavin Newsom appointed laphonza Butler to fill her senate seat Butler's been a powerful Union organizer in the state and was ahead of Emily's List a group that works to elect women candidates who favor of abortion rights, Joe manchin said he wouldn't run for re-election. This is a big deal because the West Virginia senator is a Democrat winning in a largely Red State and his bowing out of the race in 2024 could lead to another Republican seat being out in the Senate the Senate is nearly to buy the right now and that could affect the balance of power. Also this year to campus debates over Free Speech came to Washington University have been criticized for failing to protect you as students from an increase in anti-semitic attacks during Israel's war and Gaza three University presidents were called to testify before the house education committee University of Pennsylvania president resigned under pressure after her response to questioning. Why does that Professor still have a job at your University? Very troubled by what you're describing Congressman that kind of spending it you allow these professors to teach at your college. You create a safe haven for this type of anti-Semitic Behavior. Here's a few cases to highlight from the Supreme Court this year bring for ruled that map of hearthstone abortion drug can remain on us markets. The decision is seen as a victory for the national abortion rights movement the court overturned Alabama election day in the state of diluted the power black voters by drawing a map with only one black District Court also ruled that race-conscious admissions processes at Harvard and North Carolina or unlawful. This could have sweeping impact on admissions at universities across the United States as universities try to find out how to have student bodies that reflect the makeup of the country without running afoul of Supreme Courts to do the court also ruled that a web designer has the right to refuse service to same-sex couples, which was a setback for lgbtq plus price. Supreme Court also dealt a blow to President Joe Biden's effort to forgive large amount of student loan debt. The Court ruled that the heroes act allow that President Biden was using to allow people to delay payments on student loans and forgive large portions of them did not Grant the president the right to do that. And so the president has had to go back to the drawing board and find new mechanisms within the role of the executive. We will probably just do approaching a different walk with my original plan for so-called higher education in a major story this year. The Supreme Court wasn't even about the ruling. It was about the Justice news reports show that Justice Clarence Thomas hadn't disclosed luxury trips with Republican donor Harlan Crow and other transactions going back twenty years. So that Justice is under pressure came up with the Netflix code that they released but there's no mechanism to enforce it. It's really on the justices themselves in an honor System to abide by then. And also this year former President Donald Trump walk into this court house and became the first former president to ever be formally indicted and arraigned on federal charges. He's facing charges here for trying to overturn the 2020 election and setting in motion a series of events that led to the January 6th violent assault on the US Capitol President Trump is also facing charges in three other courtrooms. Not one charge but 91 charges and the outcome of those cases that will play out over the next couple of years could very well determine Donald Trump's political future and how the justice system can deal with former president was also running for office and facing charges at the same time. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6550686/trump-autocracy-dictator-polling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6550686/trump-autocracy-dictator-polling/"},"headline":"Americans Appear More Amenable to Autocracy in 2024","datePublished":"2024-01-01T12:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-19T07:29:32.160Z","description":"Polling suggests voters are not as turned off by Trump's vows of vengeance and Suspending the Constitution as one might hope.","url":"https://time.com/6550686/trump-autocracy-dictator-polling/","keywords":["The D.C. 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