About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said.

The November U.S. election is likely to pit President Joe Biden against Trump, who is the clear frontrunner to win the Republican nomination as voting in the presidential primary race kicks off in Iowa on Monday.

Sixty-four percent of respondents in the Angus Reid Institute poll of 1,510 Canadians said they agreed with the statement: “U.S. democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump.” Twenty-eight percent disagreed.

The Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters seeking to block certification of Biden’s 2020 election win shocked many Canadians, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly blamed Trump for inciting the mob.

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    8 months ago

    Turns out, explicitly shutting out any options other than mid-but-increasingly further right or furthest-and-now-saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud right wasn’t the healthiest decision for voters to be have a say in policy.

    Everyone keeps telling me it’s my lefty ass’ fault we get fascism, but dems already did their fascism on me when Bernie won a primary and got told to eat a dick, then the dems went to court and told their voters to eat a dick.

    But yep it’s MY fault I don’t vote dem.