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I thought they just made shit up and didn't care what anyone believed? Are there actually people that care in his administration?
It's possible Trump is currently speedrunning into the classic "Dictator's trap" the same way he's been speedrunning everything else he's done. There's a reason most dictators end up paranoid lunatics, and it's because the further they go, the fewer people they can trust, until they eventually realize they can't trust anyone.
I'm not sure I'll ever understand why anyone would want to be a dictator. No one *truly likes them, their people are miserable and they have tons of blood on their hands. I'd say that as soon as you try to become a dictator, you're in a trap of your own making.
Most of them die miserable deaths too, although there are a lot that don't. Knowing trump's luck, he'll die at 104 surrounded by his grandchildren. Karma has never met a trump.
You could ask the same of communists, military authoritarians, theocrats. They’re convinced they know better than everyone else and that debate or prevarication is a waste of time and will allow their foes to muddy the waters.
But, but, Communism has never been given a fair shake, and we'd totally get it right next time once we outlawed all the other political parties (all Fascists) and only used our power to ensure counter-revolutionaries were suppressed!