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 its 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 didnt bring us to the brink of dictatorship.

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

Hes 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.

See his full conversation with Baier below.

Numerous analysts arent as sanguine as Hume.

On Sunday evening, for example, MSNBC s Mehdi Hasan warned against treating next years election like politics as usual.

Its dangerous, denialist madness, he said . And Im sorry, but it ends in only one place: the end of American democracy.

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said last month that Trumps agenda for a second administration is on par with authoritarians and fascists.

And in October, John Bolton, who was one of Trumps national security advisers, also sounded the alarm.

If he were elected to a second term, this time he might [do] damage that would be irreparable. This is a very dangerous period were about to enter into here, he said on CNN .