Trump Is Really Bad at Being an Authoritarian

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Matt K. Lewis: Trump isn't failing because America's culture and institutions are too strong. He's failing because what we're experiencing isn't a leader who can make the trains run on time; it's more akin to the world's most corrupt HOA meeting, scaled up to the executive branch.

Posted by lee_the_agent at 01:33 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink

Trump is too incompetent to be a dictator, by @mattklewis.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/whit ...

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-- Aryeh (@aryehcw.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM

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Pathetic people voted for a pathetic person. Now we must suffer with a pathetic government.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-30 09:21 AM

When does the winning start?

The U.S. Economy Contracts For First Time in Years

These are terrible numbers for Donald Trump as he celebrates his first 100 days

finance.yahoo.com

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-30 09:27 AM

I am glad Trump is an incompetent.

A small but needed blessing.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-30 09:35 AM

He's a doddling oaf. A clown. An idiot.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-30 10:52 AM

"In an interview with PsyPost, lead study author Jess Adrin-Ventura said that he and his team found that right-wing authoritarianism was associated with lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex " a "region involved in understanding others' thoughts and perspectives," as the assistant Zaragoza psychology professor put it."

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"The left-wing authoritarians of the bunch " we don't know exactly how many, as the results weren't broken down in the paper " had less cortical (or outer brain layer) thickness in the right anterior insula, which is "associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition."

Cortical thickness in that brain region has been the subject of ample research, from a 2005 study that found people who meditate regularly have greater thickness in the right anterior insula to a 2018 study that linked it to greater moral disgust."

futurism.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-30 11:42 AM

Executive orders are generally for show... he picked low-hanging fruit to rile the base... make a lot of noise... his version of phluffing them into a feeling of superiority...

then he kneecaps them with the stupidity of his actual impulse-driven policies of significance... you know... the stuff he thinks will work...

The Republicl0wn Party looks like a macrocosm of Rudy... Mike... and now Elon... addicted... grandiose... giddy... delusional... while the main players lacked sufficient charisma to get themselves elected.

It's not a good look after 8 decades of expensive yet failed wars... and a collection of weapons we can never use... what if we become the ones sanctioned?

Who are we an actual threat to?

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-04-30 02:26 PM

There are tons of examples of stupid Dictators doing ridiculous things that destroy their countries.

In 1968, Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias Nguema enacted a law to execute anyone wearing glasses.

Scrabble was outlawed by Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 because he thought it was "subversive evil" and too intelligent.

Saparmurat Niyazov, president for life of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2007, changed the names of the days of the week and renamed calendar months after heroes of the state. He even changed the word for bread, naming it after his beloved mother.

Schoolchildren in North Korea were taught that Kim Jong-il never defecated. Not once.

Mobutu, the president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ), made a law saying that TV in Zaire cannot mention anybody but him by name. He also commanded that all evening news begin with a scene of him descending from the heavens.

A former dictator of Myanmar (Ne Win) thought 9 was his lucky number, so decreed that all currency denominations not divisible by 9 no longer had value, devastating the savings of much of the population.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-30 03:29 PM

The one thing that Trump is good at is lying... actually, it may be the only thing he is good at.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-30 04:37 PM

One does wonder just how we humans have gotten as far as we have, considering the way (male) humans often go off the deep end and see themselves as all powerful. Either the Republican Party finds a way back to its former glory as being a body with at least some intelligent and courageous people, like John McCain, or we are just lost.
As it is, not working on global warming means hell is about to rise from the depths, or rather down from the Sun.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-01 07:48 AM

Whoa, you mean Trump isn't a cover dictator or undercover leftist?

Libs rekt, never Trump republicans also rekt.

#10 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-05-01 09:19 PM

Undercover dictator*

#11 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-05-01 09:20 PM

The one thing that Trump is good at is lying...

He's not even good at that, he just does it all the time.

To be a good liar, you need to have a good memory. You need to remember who you lied to, and about what.

If not, it's just blatantly obvious that you are a liar, like Lewzer.

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-01 09:31 PM

@#12 ... The one thing that Trump is good at is lying...