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They've all been weak in some way for a long time, either because they're actually weak (Biden), they're insane (Trump), they're constantly blocked by the other party for no reason other than said other party needing to be contrary (Obama), or they're overgrown drunk children (Bush Jr). We haven't had a leader in a very long time.
I mean, it's true in regards to the Republicans, all their ideas of "strong men" actually exemplify deeply insecure and weak mean.
However, I think these remarks attributed to Karl Rove speak to why they're effective, politically, despite that:
I mean, to be fair, that's pretty spot-on for how the entire Republican apparatus has operated for the better party of 30 years or more. That's when they really threw out the book on the hand-shake norms that were "expected" in governance. People act like Trump refusing to concede was something shocking, but rather to me, it seems like the end of a long-worn path that was always going to lead to the outcome of a Republican refusing to accept an election loss. Even without Trump, they've been growing into a regressive regime seeking religious Monarchy for quite a long time now. It's been an incredibly effective play and shows that while they are weak, they understand the execution of power within the system as it exists. Without the system as it exists, they flail, but they're not really concerned with the future because they're weak and can't conceive that far ahead. In the meantime they're willing and effective actors for destroying the system on which they rely so deeply.