Because there's nothing new under the (now bisexual) sun, we are living through a Machiavellian heuristic. Our mad prince has convinced himself that he is beloved, but he is tuning out his viziers and telling the peasants who can't afford bread to eat shit. He's no longer feared or loved: he is hated. And the hatred is spreading to his once-irreducible core of white supremacist reactionaries, misogynists, maliciously bored suburbanites, and dumbasses. That unshakable 33% is now 29% and falling. Soon, everyone will have always been against him. And, because the particular flavor of evil chud magic that makes a demagogue pop is rare and generational, we may even get a chance to strip out of our caked britches, hose off, and change before the next shitstorm arrives. Imagine how much worse this would be if he had a functioning brain and wasn't 80. Imagine how far this would have gotten with a competent opposition.