I find Ian Kershaw’s concept of “working towards the Führer” most helpful in understanding the Trump administrationhttps://goo.gl/ZtCwpP
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With the obvious Godwin's Law disclaimer, this is what happens when you have a lazy dictator who wants to keep his fingerprints off the most radical parts of his agenda. Ambitious underlings internalize his persona, and compete to outdo each other in pursuing inferred goals
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The fight to defeat Trump is a race against the clock before competent people rise in his shadow. We’ve gotten a bit complacent about that this year, because Trump and the circus surrounding him are so ineffective and unserious. But the serious people are coming.
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Failing to win the midterm elections decisively—crushingly—would not only validate all the buffoonery and tawdriness of the last year, but embolden a rising generation of skillful, morally unencumbered young jackals waiting in the wings of American politics.
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All dictators are to some degree ridiculous. Stalin fancied himself a master linguist. Romanian chemists had to add Elena Ceaușescu's name to their papers to get them published. Ridiculousness offers no protection against tyranny.
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Caligula has Incitatus, his favorite horse, made consul.
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if you haven’t read SPQR, it’s just the best
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