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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
5. Trump will slowly lose his grip over these people
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:08 AM
Jan 2021

These are the desperate rantings of a demagogue who recognizes his grasp on power is slipping away.

It is the most dangerous time, but it will come to an end.

Historian (and expert on classical Fascism) Ruth Ben-Ghiat nails this phase of the process in her book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. She takes the reader through every phase of the tyrant's reign, from ascendency to fall.

I know this will sound crazy, but I'm a little bit relieved to see him acting like this, looking like shit and saying things like this, because it demonstrates that he' knows the end has come. (And that is assuming it's true that he's now out of the chain of command).

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