We have never missed an election in nearly 250 years of existence, even during the Civil War. If he does that, then America no longer exists, and we have no obligation to pay taxes, respect the laws, pay our debts, etc., and most especially acknowledge the government.
He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.
He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.
He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.
And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.
Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?
Suspending elections.
We have never missed an election in nearly 250 years of existence, even during the Civil War. If he does that, then America no longer exists, and we have no obligation to pay taxes, respect the laws, pay our debts, etc., and most especially acknowledge the government.
It is every man for himself.
Firing judges who resist him
Dissolution of Congress
Deployment of military on US soil to control citizens.
Alteration or abandonment of the Constitution.
You’re right we are definitely on the spectrum of dictatorship, but it can get much much worse.
And I think it will get worse