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(comparison limited to countries with actual governments doing some governance, not failed states with warlord cores — those fall outside the 1-4 spectrum)
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Ie there has to be a meaningful institutional political process for there to be people who count as politicians rather than warlords or tribal leaders
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I'm wondering, seriously, how much he has drunk his own Kool-Aid. I see this as more of his incredible low cunning: this is all very expensive value signaling to a post-Pres audience, e.g. an audition for a major OANN gig. Terrible, but not as terrible as say Nixon would do here.
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