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.
The one good SNL bit about Trump during the fallow Baldwin years was the "What I Did for Love" parody where various GOP schmucks confess how they capitulated to him if only for a small taste of power. Naturally it's the only sketch not available online.
