Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life" open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
And Dictatorship in Real Life
Who dream about a strongman, can emigrate to North Korea. The fat blob there isn't orange, but that's not important.
Peeps ☝️
…excellent essay… sharing broadly… always…challenge of liberty is surrender to monarchy…
Wishing I could time travel these f’ing shit-for-brains people back into the Eastern Bloc for a week and see how they like the idea of ‘strongman rule’ after that. They 🤦 have 🤦♀️ no 🤦♂️ clue.
The road to hell is paved with stupid ideas.
As unconscionable as the idea of US strongman/dictator is, that *anyone* would entrust such power and authority to trump is undeniably capricious and dunderheaded.
Like little children who want daddy to fix everything.
Dark stuff
It's easy to kill democracy, but very difficult to restore it