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Trump is very comfortable acting like he's big BOC across the world essentially. And so these leaders have
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figured out a way to please him in a it's kind of sad. It's like pleasing an old man. Like let's pet him and this and
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that. Here's my prediction. He's going to go up to the DMZ and go visit his friend in North Korea. He's so close. He
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talks about him in a nicer way than he talks about other Americans, which is really kind of depressing given he's a
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dictator and not just an autocrat, even worse than that. But those are his role models. He's very
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much about strength. He conflates strength with coarseness and cruelty and authoritarianism. And the problem is
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he's been successful in the short term at it. He's won the presidency twice. Everybody's falling in line behind him.
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And it's out of the authoritarian playbook. Reward reward the people who are loyal to you. Punish severely the
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people who aren't loyal to you.