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Originally Posted by Pete F.

He fired all the smart people.
He surrounded himself with bootlickers.
Put sticky fingered family members and cronies in charge of things.
Grew a devoted,loud following.
Derided experience and talent.
Called failures success and when that stopped working,blamed someone else.

That's a Venezuelan's description of Chavez and they know about losing a democracy, albeit not a perfect one.

But it doesn't matter if a corrupt man in power claims to be left or right, masters of populism like Chavez and Agolf Twitler work the same.

Find a wound common to many, find someone to blame for it, and make up a good story to tell. Mix it all together. Tell the wounded you know how they feel. That you found the bad guys. Label them: the minorities, the politicians, the businessmen. Caricature them. As vermin, evil masterminds, haters and losers, you name it. Then paint yourself as the savior. Capture the people’s imagination. Forget about policies and plans, just enrapture them with a tale. One that starts with anger and ends in vengeance. A vengeance they can participate in.

That’s how it becomes a movement. There’s something soothing in all that anger. Populism is built on the irresistible allure of simplicity. The narcotic of the simple answer to an intractable question. The problem is now made simple.

And here we are with the "Chosen One"

Just think Agolf now says that almost all of his most prominent hires were colossal mistakes. What does that say about him?

I'm gonna do a Spence--everything you said is wrong.