someone pointed me to this paper today. one notable thing about it is that Trump is speedrunning all of the mistakes which bring down autocrats simultaneously, without having clearly consolidated any source of regime support.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/democracy-by-mistake-how-the-errors-of-autocrats-trigger-transitions-to-freer-government/7F9054A5F636EEE21B3BF56EF1BF8930
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/democracy-by-mistake-how-the-errors-of-autocrats-trigger-transitions-to-freer-government/7F9054A5F636EEE21B3BF56EF1BF8930
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and, well, I guess we're gonna find out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
at a minimum they are gutting their own ability to build and project power. Unleash chaos, sure, and maybe that’s worse! But definitely not building any moats
I think he's the coyote. If he ever thinks to look down, gravity's gonna get him.
(Musk is the CEO of Acme.)
That might help us here.
I mean, he’s an egomaniac who is fundamentally incurious about anything.
Winning meant everybody loved him and he can wants.