Totalitarianism uses fear to control populations
When I looked at Donald Trump back in the Eighties, I saw a psychotic, narcissistic, criminal, ruthless and dishonest person. I never expected he'd lead a totalitarian movement.
I thought "Totalitarian? That's crazy! Trump is an incompetent boob, not a terrorist!"
But then I thought, stupidity, ruthlessness and brutality go together. Stupid behaviors are frightening because they are mostly arbitrary and when they are all too predictable they are predictable in their violence, harm and the suffering they inflict.
So Stupidity and dictatorship go together like a horse and carriage.
Authoritarianism & Totalitarianism are also pathocracy
Totalitarian methods are not the policy of diabolical braniacs but of brutal, clever, but incompetent leaders trying to maintain an image and keep power in the face of the evident fraud of pathological ideologies and impractical lives.
Yes, Trump is authoritarian. If he succeeds he'll fail, he'll break our country.
Andrew Lobaczewski and Pathocracy
Andrew Lobaczewski developed the concept of "pathocracy" based on experiences suffering Nazi & Soviet occupation in his birth home of Poland. Pathocracy is when:
"individuals with personality disorders
Trump exemplifies pathocracy but everything about him also follows Hannah Arendt's warnings in Origins of Totalitarianism.
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