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They can afford it. After all there are only two entries on the Republican federal budget: 1. grifting money. 2. money to the paramilitary to foment and subsequently suppress dissent.

Not really.

Well, the Des Moines Register certainly is.

Because Trump the Putin-sycophant will threaten to remove all aid to Ukraine for the nth time if they do it without his permission.

People thought Hitler was charismatic as well. I think the thing is that these kinds of people are only charismatic to a certain subset of people. Hateful narcissistic morons mostly, and then probably because they see themselves in them.

Definitely. His favourite decisions are when he can both grift and satisfy his pathological narcissism at the same time.

Lots and lots of Americans are perfectly fine with tyranny, as long as they believe it is their tyranny being imposed. Also what does size have to do with anything?

Yeah, as a non-American, having lived with being exposed all my life to the American propagated myth about Americans being the most freedom loving and individualistic people on Earth, it is a bit curious to see how quick and unopposed the implementation of dictatorship in the US is.