I'm not going to list all the red flags, but there is a reason people feel like this. A few major ones, president talking about taking over other countries out of the blue, attacking our allies to the point where Americans are suffering much more than necessary, his sidekick doing Nazi salutes on stage, literal commercials for his $idekick on the white house lawn.

It's pretty clear there is no rule of law for blatant corruption and no accountability. Replace USA/Trump with Russia/Putin or NK/Un, guess what, same shit, different smell. Either follow orders or get shipped out is the example they're trying to set, as well as making free speech illegal.

We're FAR from a functioning democracy.

Well think about a lot of the characteristics of the US and maybe you'll at least see where they're coming from. It's not about 100% accuracy as much as perspective. And it seems like it'd hard to shatter illusions some people there have.

High poverty rate compared to developed countries, low literacy rates compared to developed countries, Highly authoritarian, highly propagandised, militia compounds spread throughout.

You you can be taken and imprisoned in a desert camp, fed expired food, put in a chain gang and not that it would be OK otherwise, but you haven't been convicted of a crime.

Constant terrorist attacks.

You can be put in solitary until you have psychosis and youre smearing feces on the walls, and then the confessions you give after that can be used in court.

There was a mass protest of slave Labour and the slaves were starved until they went back to work.

You can be disappeared and have your residency revoked for protesting war crimes. You had someone who worked in your torture camps run to be a candidate for president and they got far.

Child marriage is legal.

People are sent back to a polluted industrial hazard town after train derailment and all the animals are dead and they're complaining of chemical burns. If they complain the get dragged out by cops.

Food standards not accepted elsewhere. Companies can poison large parts of the population and even if they're punished its an amount that still means the profited from it

They took a guy who promoted health misinformation that led to dead kids and they put him in charge of health, even though a worm ate his brain.

Expansionist, aggressive, worships the military but fucks over veterans, complains about first responders injured on the job getting health care, so they scrapped it. Constantly chasing culture was BS, never quite left the satanic panic.