Trump the Chump / Trumpi Dumpi / The Cardboard Conqueror “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” — George Carlin

Trump the Chump / Trumpi Dumpi / The Cardboard Conqueror “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” — Albert Einstein

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” — Montesquieu

“Madness is rare in individuals but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

1 year: “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts.” — Hannah Arendt

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced ideologue, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“A man who has not mastered himself will always believe the world owes him obedience.” — Adapted from Plato

"By the time a dictatorship can be clearly named, it no longer needs to justify itself. Authoritarianism begins when language displaces truth, force replaces consent, and memory is reshaped faster than people can resist." Depicted in George Orwell, Animal Farm 1945