Guest on 'Real Time': Trump's Re-Election Would Signal 'Demise of Democracy,' Trump Has 'Psychological Envy' Toward Dictators

During Friday’s edition of Real Time With Bill Maher, the eponymous host sat down with Garry Kasparov, co-author of a new book called Fight For Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump, which includes a foreword by anti-Trump historian Jon Meacham. Kasparov asserted that President Trump’s re-election would signal the “demise of democracy,” an idea which Maher agreed with. Maher predicted that Trump is “not going to leave even if he loses the election,” kind of an ironic point to make as Democrats across the country refuse to concede in a series of elections where they have no path to victory.  Kasparov continued: “His affection toward dictators in my view based on his psychological envy to them because he also wants to be like them so he wants to act without any checks and balances, that’s why I guess he was depressed by the results of this elections because all of a sudden, now, he could be checked.” Kasparov later argued that President Trump has succeeded in “ruining the image of America being a...true democracy,” in addition to claiming that the President acts like Putin or “fellow dictators.”