Dictatorship 101
By: Helen A. Handbasket
July 27, 2018
Have you always dreamed of being a dictator? Can you see yourself as a strongman in a banana republic? Does the word "despot" make your heart swell? If you said yes, then you need to study the following behaviors as taught in the How to Be a Dictator class at Trump University.
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Concoct your own facts and call them "alternative facts".
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Lie and repeat your lies until they are believed.
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Call the free press the “enemy of the people".
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Undermine trust in government institutions.
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Find ways to punish your critics.
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Use your position to line your own pockets.
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Claim that laws don't apply to you.
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Put together a loyal group of sycophants to support you.
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Paint a gloomy picture of the future and claim that only you can fix it.
Study hard and maybe one day, you too, will have a snappy nickname like “IL Duce".