“With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.” –Zig Ziglar
“Power is fear.”–Donald Trump
It makes perfect sense that Trump would make that statement. Power, of course, does not immediately require fear to be operational. Bosses have power, but a good boss is hardly considered someone who operates through promoting fear in his subordinates. And good presidents don’t inspire fear. Obama certainly did not. W. may have inspired fear since he was an idiot, but he didn’t consider fear a mandatory part of his job. Nor did Clinton, certainly or any reasonable man you can name.
But Trump believes that fear goes hand in hand with being the POTUS. That explains why he has contempt for our allies and tons of admiration for Putin or Kim Jong un, dictators who are known to have everyone from political enemies to family members poisoned, shot, or otherwise dispatched of. They inspire fear in their population, and Trump wants to do that as well. He despises the media because, rather than fear him, they dare to criticize him. He wants the media to fear him, his staff and secretaries to fear him, the voters to fear him. Or just love him unreservedly, something I’m reasonably sure even his wife doesn’t do.
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