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.
Most people think of him as the shrewd but chaotic (heavily edited around) business guy from The Apprentice, and forget - or never knew - that he used to appear on Playboy VHS tapes just so he could look at the “bazongas.” He used to go on Howard Stern and lie about which models he had sex with.
