I voted against Hillary, and I wanted to point out that Trump is not the beginning of this at all; every president in my lifetime has made vague promises that rely on voters trusting the State more than on actual reason. IMO, Hillary did it even worse; instead of having a slogan about supporting America, hers was literally "I'm with her" which is about trusting the figurehead. Also, a large part of Trump's appeal is the cutting back of the regulatory state, which presumably most of us support. Furthermore, I'd like to point out that Trump didn't demonize Hispanics or legal immigrants unless you take his words out of context the way the leftist media did constantly. Incidentally, within days of the media jumping on him for calling members of MS13 (a gang whose members are required to rape and murder people) animals, a member whose gang name was animal went to court.

Long story short, Trump persuaded people to vote for him more effectively than the other candidates in part by supporting limits on government and cracking down on those who commit terrible crimes. If he became a tyrant he would probably lose most or all of his support. And based on Scott Adams' assessment of the situation, he probably reduced racial tensions more than raised them. So while in some ways he might have helped pave the way for a dictator, he was by far the best realistic option to vote for from a libertarian perspective.

Unfortunately, the author gives Trump the benefit of the doubt, where I think none is deserved.
I don't think he's a different person behind closed doors. I don't think anything he says is in jest. And I don't think he lacks the mentality of a dictator.
Even more unfortunate is the idea that his supporters are largely too ignorant and uninformed to see it, or to care.
If your idea of news is InfoWars, you might actually believe that Obama was a demon, and that God Almighty has sent Trump to deliver us from that demon (look it up on YouTube, Alex Jones actually said that).
The worst part is that we as a country could walk right into a new kind of dictatorship, and the 40 percent of American voters who put Trump in power won't see it until it's too late, and by then they'll have found a way to blame it on Obama or Hillary anyway.
This country desperately needs to finally realize that ignorance has consequences.

I suspect he is worse than that. He is monomaniacal, and no one has ever dared say no to him. (Which is why we seefits of rage at any opposition or difference of opinion.) He is a disaster as a human being, and it shows in policy and pronouncements.