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Successful would-be authoritarians have a PLAN to which they rigorously adhere, the ability to focus, and are willing to play the long game to achieve their goals.

Trump has the attention span of a gnat, wouldn't recognise a plan of action if it hit him in the face, and governed by whimsy and mood of the moment.

That having been said , he did achieve some success on the economic front. But all of his successes were just Standard Republican Policy that any Republican president might have achieved with the requisite majorities in Congress. They didn't spring from his fevered brain like he claimed.

American Bonaparte or Mussolini? No. American Silvio Berlusconi

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