# America may become an autocracy :-( **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 31, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-may-become-an-autocracy/778644 "2017-01-31T05:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-may-become-an-autocracy/778644/8 "2017-01-31T18:57:47Z")
This assumes the economy does better for working class people under Trump. I fail to see why that would happen. Trump Just backed off his promise to make Medicare negotiate drug prices. He hasn’t proposed anything that’ll make life easier for working people. He already increased their mortgages. Paul Ryan wants to voucherize Medicare and kick people off aca and medicaid. His trade agenda will increase prices. Other than racial and cultural resentment, what appeal does he have? It won’t be economic. If Trump made life better economically like authoritarian right wing leaders in Eastern Europe and Russia do, I could understand the appeal that would lead to reelection. But we are looking at an age of increased prices, lower wages, less health insurance, more expensive mortgages, etc under Trump. All the propaganda on the world won’t let people ignore that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-may-become-an-autocracy/778644)._