William Lindsey 20h ago

"When ... 'strongmen' realize their weakness is becoming more apparent, their misguided and ignorant policies are backfiring, and their malfeasance is unpopular, it triggers the intense fear they all have of people hating them, turning against them, conspiring to take them down."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 20h ago

"It’s then that they start firing their officials, blaming them for their failures. It is then, too, that such a leader might just feel the compulstion to announce in public that his beloved ballroom —which is an extension of his ego, his need to recreate the world in his own image— will have a 'massive' military complex underneath it."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 20h ago

"Meaning the ballroom is a very expensive front for an exit strategy: a place to hide when the disasters he is provoking every day come to pass.

Every dictator broods about such scenarios."

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Show threadJames Tweedie
@wdlindsy In other words his Bunker.
He obviously does not 'do' history.
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