No one else will work for him. He could have had his pick of the most skillful hacks if,he was less volatile and a bit more polished. All he can get now are gutter dwellers and basket case grifters
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Close parallels in history of authoritarians who set up a personalist culture that demands replication of their values and behavior.
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Dog and dog owners begin to look alike over time. So there's that.
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It's true and very disturbingly weird tho. Over time his people & much of the GOP are starting to resemble him. It's a kind of reverse portrait of Dorian Grey. They're getting uglier by the day. The whole lot of them.
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Ian Kershaw’s ‘Working Towards the Fuhrer’ theory might factor in
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Past is prologue, particularly in the case of Trump. Myers / Briggs work on Personalities isn’t specific to political science but their analysis & the subsequent work of David Keirsey, indicated that most individuals tend to surround themselves with people who are “like them.”
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Here's Linz on the tendency of presidentialism to discourage strong cabinets (on p. 31). https://books.google.ca/books?id=e5dkxDhDjCoC&lpg=PP1&dq=linz%20presidentialism%20yes%20men&pg=PA32#v=snippet&q=independent%20parliamentarians&f=false …
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There is some good political psychology lit and scholars who might have insight here...
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On this particular question, a good place to start is with Irving Janis on Groupthink
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