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