He's either an idiot or an asset. We decide which. He could be both, but it seems unlikely unless you're 1960's style CIA. Then again, he learned at Nixon's knee.
Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to impose dictatorship when everyone is comfortable. Who cares that due process is out the window constitution is ablaze if I have my cushy job and live in a nice neighborhood. Bad stuff happens to the others not me. The other undesirables I am safe.. Then reality hits.
I understand why it would seem that way but historically that’s generally not how it occurs. Dictatorships need complicity, a populous both willing to give up the rights of themselves or others and allow harm to be done to others. That’s easier to achieve if people are scared and angry.
There’s also almost always a corresponding messiah complex at work, a cult of personality. The pitch is things are bad and they’re only going to get worse, but not only is dear leader not responsible for that as society has established an enemy (“the other”), but he’s the only one who can save us.
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