THREAD - Anyone who's read Hanna Arendt will see Trump as a clear case of a tyrant-in-the-making. The rise of rogue rulers is incumbent on suspension of reason, which Trump has skillfully done by painting anything that disagrees with him as fake /1
Trump then replaced reality with his own fake alternative narrative. He then imagines himself as the victim of a conspiracy. A victim usually absolves him/herself from the rules, because others have presumably unfairly violated these rules. Whataboutism becomes a rule. /2
Tyrant then convinces cult that his victory is their victory, whereas in reality, he accumulates power and they lose it. I don't think Trump is devilishly smart to understand what he is doing, but his instinct is one of mobster chiefs where life is "kill or get killed." /3
Everything is zero sum game. Americans who don't see this menace are not the first in history. The Germans and many other nations committed the same mistake. /4
American Elite who don't see this are either complicit or dumb. They think they can make use of such phenomenon, but it always backfires on them, and they lose. /END
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