I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
I say or think this at least once a month. And not only “Donald fucking Trump” but “Donald fucking Trump who you’ve *personally watched* backstab every single person who’s helped/enabled/bent over backwards for him”. THAT Donald fucking Trump
See that is the only part that I can't wrap my head around. I can see them giving unfettered power to an idiot, but that particular idiot will punish them, *personally*, the first time they deliver a decision that even slightly annoys him
