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[DrContango]

Is It Safe to Ask Whether Trump’s Days Are Numbered?
Just posing the question gives us the willies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/opinion/trump-biden-2020-election.html?referringSource=articleShare

Bret: Successful strongmen like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan spend years carefully laying the groundwork for autocracy by first gaining broad public support, then by getting their allies to control the mainstream media, then by appointing their toadies to key positions in the military, and so on. Trump, by contrast, is despised by more than half the country, most of the media and his own secretary of defense. If someone ever uncovers his college transcript, I’m guessing he got a C- in the class on dictatorship, which is better than the D’s and F’s that I’m guessing he got in his classes on business analytics, financial accounting and management essentials.

Gail: Yeah if we’re going to be under the thumb of a dictator you want one who got a good grade in his autocracy seminar.

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