> Claiming a country is a dictatorship or not has absolutely nothing to do with it being a dictatorship or not

I don’t understand where you are going with this. Words have meanings and accusations have weight. When enough people claim that thing quacking, and swimming over there is a duck, it does weigh in on the consensus that it is indeed a duck. Especially when duck experts start pretty much all agreeing that it is indeed a duck.

Now this hasn’t happened, but what Trump has described and promised is pretty much a dictatorship. What I’m doing here is predicting that if and when the USA conduct dictatorial behavior on a regular basis, including stripping away equal rights, we should all be prepared for denialism to proliferate.

All true, but any nation will only call out dictators if they are not playing ball, otherwise it will be glossed over.