The thing about authoritarians is that they value loyalty more than competence.

[applegrove]

https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/116874242937561903

JasonLefkowitz:

The thing about authoritarians is that they value loyalty more than competence. They start by hiring the most competent loyalists they can find. But those people are frequently still more loyal than they are competent, so they fail, and then the authoritarian fires them and hires the next most competent loyalist. But that person is even less competent than their predecessor, so they fail too, and then the authoritarian fires them and hires the third most competent loyalist. And so on.

Play this dynamic out over a decade and you get leaders who can't even successfully throw a party

[vapor2]

1. Totally obvious by his entire cabinet

[orthoclad]

2. The hierarchy is what counts - not the functionality.