“He’s more likely to drive the Republican Party into defeat at the hands of Joe Biden than he is to drive the country toward dictatorship,” he said. Fox News analyst Brit Hume downplayed the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy ― and at the same time warned Republicans about what nominating the former president would really mean for the party.

“It seems to me it’s all a little overwrought,” he told Bret Baier on Monday over concerns Trump plans to become a dictator if he wins. “We had four years of Donald Trump, and he blustered and bragged and threatened and so forth, and yet he didn’t bring us to the brink of dictatorship.”

Hume said Trump’s attempts to cling to power after the 2020 election failed, and he dismissed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump’s supporters.

“What was labeled an insurrection lasted three or four hours, and it was no match for the constitutional restraints which exist and would exist in a Trump second term,” he said.
Then he gave Republican voters a warning of what a Trump campaign might really mean: Yet another defeat at the ballot box.

“He’s more likely to drive the Republican Party into defeat at the hands of Joe Biden than he is to drive the country toward dictatorship,” he said.