Who's the Right's favorite dictator? Firstly we must consider if this means the Trump camp, or the lunatic business wing probably best represented by Tucker Carlson, or the religious nutballs whose leadership is more decentralized and diffuse. The last group breaks along Catholic and Orthodox versus insane evangelical lines. Evangelicals want the world to end in fire and fury, God's version of 'shock and awe' in Bushian terms. There's a cornucopia of crazies on the right these days.
Among the MAGAs Kim Jong Un is the favorite because he's so entrenched and his family stands to rule North Korea forever. Did you notice how Trump's degraded followers fancy a multigenerational dynasty? So, there. Un it is. Putin wins among the corporate elite by familiarity. Though Carlson plays the religious card as well we know he's only using the troglodytes. For whom he has immeasurable contempt. Bankers and all love kleptocrats as much as they hate competition.
They want to print money. Nothing is better than having control over an ostensibly representative government. The favor of the religious elements is spread about. Help me out if I've miss an autocracy or two. They see aspects of what they love in Iran, Afghanistan, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and even Italy. The thrill they feel at the possibility of another Calvin-in-Geneva situation is almost sexual. My God, the repression. The sublimation. The projection. The cruelty and bigotry. A return to torture. Again we see how Bush was a harbinger of so much that was to come.
Millions of lives destroyed and all in God's name. Too good to be true! I mean, these are hopeful times for power hungry madmen and their followers. So much to applaud and the possibility of nuclear annihilation increasing as we speak, just as God wanted it and ordained.
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