William Lindsey 1d 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 1d 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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armadillosoft17h ago
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"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 threadHakeemG1d ago

@wdlindsy

It's really a stretch to call Trump a dictator, he certainly wants to be a dictator, but 77 million people voted for this clown and another 90 million stayed home.

I know it's not popular but the American voter really did this to themselves. It's not like they weren't warned, Kamala warned them, Biden warned them, even Obama came back and warned everyone.

Show threadWilliam Lindsey 1d ago
@HakeemG I'm not one who has to be convinced that we need to note that many American voters did this to ourselves. I think the word "dictator" can have a fairly elastic meaning, too.
Show threadJames Tweedie1d ago
@wdlindsy In other words his Bunker.
He obviously does not 'do' history.