This is what happens when:
a. You put an ignorant uneducated fool in charge who behaves like a wild adolescent.
b. He surrounds himself with incompetent sycophantic morons like Hegseth
c. He believes that he can bully, threaten and attack anyone to get his way
d. He shares an obnoxious, belligerent, fascist ideology with his appointments and lives in a bubble
e. He is a psychopathic narcissist who things he is more important, more powerful than anyone and can do anything he wants
f. When he and his cronies think that laws (international or national) are made for everyone else but not them
g. That everything is black and white and just by stating things they happen
h. Who believes that planning and investigating likely outcomes is for pussies
i. Who thinks he can bomb, kill and force anyone and everyone to do what he wants, when he wants
j. Who doesn’t care about consequences or human misery
k. Who drops allies and friends and sides with fellow war criminals, tyrants and despots (like Putin and Netanyahu)
l. Who is so needy that he has hissy fits with anyone who doesn’t go along with what he wants.
m. Who always lies and seems to believe his own lies
n. Who can’t read, is stupid with short attention span, disbelieves experts, won’t take advice and acts of gut instinct (always wrong)
o. Who believes going gung-ho produces results
p. Who sees everything as a means for personal gain and really doesn’t care about the nation’s debts, affect on ordinary people or number of deaths
This is the definition of Fascism – superiority built on prejudice and not reality. Scapegoating and treating other people as inferior, worthless and subhuman so that you can treat them abominably, cruelly and coldly – incarcerate, expel and bomb, even torture – because they are worthless. Simplistic black and white solutions to complex issues. Use of force and suppression. Linear thinking. Lack of compassion and empathy. Brutality.