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.
It should have been obvious that a country built on such a shitty misreading of Christianity was no match for a man composed entirely of the Seven Deadly Sins
