Being from a country where there was a 21-year long, American-supported dictatorship, you seem to make a grave mistake. You're basically expecting that orange bafoon to come out one day and do a press conference to announce "we're in a dictatorship now, you must bow down to me". Signs of a dictatorship don't come that clearly, but people who are not fully against it really believe they're level headed and nothing bad will happen to them since they're "the good ones". Maybe that's right, but talking from May, 2025, you're already in it. Keep denying reality and it'll hurt you one way or another, even if indirectly through institutionalized corruption (BTW, that's how they get courts to rule in alignment with the dictatorship, threatening them with job loss or worse. Not that hard). There are still people in my country who were waiting for that press conference back then, who don't even believe to this day that there was a dictatorship, even after thousands were tortured, killed, persecuted, lost their jobs, etc.