The Paradox of Strongman Rule

The paradox of strongman rule is that the more power and money they accumulate, the more paranoid insecure and grasping they become. Strong men do not see any separation between public and private. Everything is theirs. At its peak, you get kleptocracy. So Putin has the biggest kleptocrats since Gaddafi. And so, so this is a fundamental, Trump was a fundamentally different kind of president than anyone we had before of either party.

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