Ruth Ben-Ghiat

And those people in civil society see that something has happened and they're not supporting Trump anymore.

And so maybe they start thinking differently.

You ask such good questions.

It's a very interesting question, the idea of succession.

Because if you look around the world, these guys, the Erdogans and the Putins, they don't allow any talk of succession because of their egos.

And in fact, I wrote a piece for my Substack Lucid about this.

The acronym is TINA, T-I-N-A.

There is no alternative.

And so the personality cult is about there being no alternative.

Only the great Trump or only the great Erdogan can rule.

And so they do say each one finds his own way to keep people away who would either they jail like opposition leaders.

That's what Erdogan did.

The guy who could beat him for the presidency is sitting in jail.

Putin did that with Navalny, killed him.

We just got news he was poisoned.

Which is not found in Siberia.

So that's an extreme, they do.

But the Trump example with Don Jr., etc., that's the dynastic thing, because we're talking about oligarchy.

What you described before where, okay, it's going to be Vance, who Vance is there representing Peter Thiel and Musk and all the techno-fascists.

That's why he's there.