Step 1: manufacture a crisis Step 2: become an emergency dictator "for the duration of the crisis" Step 3: make sure the crisis never goes away, but it's not

Step 1: manufacture a crisis Step 2: become an emergency dictator "for the duration of the crisis" Step 3: make sure the crisis never goes away, but it's not so bad that people would revolt It's basically dictatorship 101. In this case the US happens to be the center of global economy, so a crisis in the US also causes a crisis elsewhere, but that's an irrelevant side effect. The only question is whether Americans will realize what's going on before it's too late.