Friday, November 22, 2024

Get ready for more chaos in a Trump 2.0 administration

There's a widespread myth out there that dictators know how to "get stuff done," which authoritarians use to persuade people they are a necessary evil. But it is a myth. Mussolini did not make the trains run on time. Hitler wasn't ruthlessly efficient. He instead bankrupted his country with a horrific war that eventually led to much of the nation being bombed into oblivion.

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[T]he Achilles heel of authoritarians is they confuse power and domination, and end up struggling to hold a coalition together. When they were focused on defeating a common enemy — Democrats — Republicans were able to set aside their differences to get Trump over the electoral line. But now that he's won, the fractures are starting to show. Even more importantly, Trump doesn't know how to bring different factions to the table to compromise. Instead, his every instinct is to set people against one another in a never-ending contest to curry his favor. That's great for his ego, but it is not, thankfully, how to get stuff done.

  Salon
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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