Putin, Trump, Iran, and Netanyahu unveil the terrifying perils of strong man rule.

The most amazing thing about Donald Trump's current criminal trial is that it is happening at all.

He has told us that if he becomes president he's

going to change our country in a way that such a trial could never be possible again.

There will be absolute immunity for Trump and his cronies as he will argue before the Supreme Court on April 25th

No person aligned with him will ever be prosecuted again just like in Hungary Russia

Iran Turkey or China Those countries are all run by strong men. The men Trump

openly admires and aspires to be, as does Netanyahu. The irony about strong man leaders is that they're generally not strong people.

They use violence and the rhetoric of violence to mask their own fear and weakness,

but like the guy spinning plates on sticks, they know they're always just

one slip up away from the whole thing crashing down around them.

I first saw the consequences of Strong Man rule when I went into Uganda with a German international relief

agency just a few months after Idi Amin had fled to Saudi Arabia where that

dictatorship had given him a mansion for himself and his 30 or so wives and

concubines.

We brought in food and medicine to deal with the famine in the Katamojia region that his policies

in the Tanzanian War of Liberation had brought, all while trying to avoid being killed by the

partisans he'd left behind. This is what authoritarian leaders always do. While

pillaging their countries for their own benefit they elevate their crooked oligarch buddies and build

alliances of mutual dependence with the most powerful people in the political and business classes.

Like Trump getting funding from Russians and putting corrupt billionaires in his cabinet

whose colleagues are now in turn funding his campaign.

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