Never thought of it this way.

[WinstonSmith4740]

Gives me hope. Once again, Donny will fail because of his own ineptitude and greed.
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1. Yep. They're all about the cosplay.

Donnie has always come from the "just yell at people until you get the results you want" school of mismanagement. He does the Mussolini chin thing and declares victory and success regardless of facts because that's how fascists act.

I think Stephen Miller might be the only one who's actually knows what he's doing. Maybe.

That said, the Nazis were stupid too, they still caused unfathomable damage....

[tanyev]

2. Relevant quote:

Specifically, he argued, Trump and his inner circle are just too greedy and distracted by their personal wealth ambitions to make the long-term decisions that would help them achieve ideological goals.

Although I would add that Trump’s unhinged narcissistic need for praise, flattery and revenge is even more crippling than his personal wealth ambitions.

[usonian]

3. He has zero executive ability.

Ultimately said Snyder, Trump and his allies "are failed fascists. They want somebody else to do the work of fascism for them — they want to delegate it.

A Mafia Don (he seems to be imitating one) knows how and who to delegate.

Trump trusts nobody. He betrays everyone near him or who trusts him. Starting with his wife.

He gets people to do hit jobs and fires them, so it's always a mad scramble. His lack of self confidence is reflected in his distrust of everyone else.



He also is controlled by kompromat of the Epstein kind. I suspect that the REAL video or videos of interest are being bought and sold like Pilgrim blanket chests at a New England flea market.

It's complex, because that's how he made his money, the Trump-Epstein illicit sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire, but that's also his sword of Damocles ... he could lose it all (and hope he does) when THAT piece of dirt comes out. DOJ probably doesn't have it, or it would be buried with the bodies of those strangled kids.

Edit to add:

I believe that with Epstein material coming out, and especially with the Melania business, he started a war (with Bibi's urging) and completely overdid it, overriding credible intelligence (cuz, he knows better, of course) and got into the same jam as previous "walk in the park" egomaniacs did.

Mussolini, Putin, Dubya ...

One of the most critical parts of delegation involves getting, being able to assess and trust intelligence. When it impinges in any way on his ego "I believe it's called divine, omnipotent wisdom", he rejects it. Like his cult members.

And he listens to crackpots like Miller and Musk, with a completely phantasmical worldview.