CitizenKong

Any autocracy really. It's not as if there aren't any around right now.

Also social media algorithms supercharging confirmation bias.

I don't think he expected to witness Greg Stillson for real.

That's why this time the plan is to get rid of a health ministery before the next pandemic hits.

Great news for the faltering iron lung industry!

For everyone else, not so much.

Elect a monster. Get a freakshow.

Define criminals? Oh, you mean poor and non-white people.

I learned about it in school in the 90s. But that was in Germany.

This from the movie "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" by Guy Ritchie. Basically British Inglourious Basterds.

Which is fitting, since he's a violent asshole and raging alcoholic.

Die Grünen haben zurzeit Rekord-Zuläufe an Mitgliedern.

Exactly. It offers easy answers to complicated questions especially attractive to people who are to dumb and/or tired to bother trying to understand complex reality.

Looking for blame in a vague "other" is also easier than to face your personal shortcomings. ("I'm not out of a job because I'm lazy, it's those damn immigrants!" "The fact that my children hate me is not due to my shitty parenting, it's liberal transgender brainwashing!")