We have a functioning political system, and not nearly as much power concentrated into the hands of a single person.

yes, I've noticed a huge uptick in the right wing party using almost exactly the same language and bullshit moves.

Eh, they've already seen that with the balkans and eastern bloc countries in the 80-90s. You're gonna get a bunch of Orbàn-like small time dictators on every state that once on a while have to bow to the requests of a central-government more interested in its own political intrigues than governing anything.

US Doomers are expecting something similar to the Civil War movie in the next few years, the reality will be more similar to "The Lives Of Others".