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This is the playbook of virtually every Eastern European nation. Achieve power through demagoguery, enrich self and loyalists once in power. Rinse and repeat.
by mtberatwork 10y ago
This is the playbook of virtually every Eastern European nation. Achieve power through demagoguery, enrich self and loyalists once in power. Rinse and repeat.
- masklinn 10y ago> This is the playbook of virtually every Eastern European nation. Or pretty much every "business strongman"[0] third-world regime really, Trevor Noah had a bit comparing Trump to South Africa's Jacob Zuma, it was less funny and more uncanny to see the parallels. And then things get dreadful when you realise a "graft and cronyism" Trump presidency is starting to look like a best-case scenario given his campaign statements and cabinet appointments. [0] as opposed to "military strongman"