Posted at Hartmann Report on May. 26, 2025
Why Corruption Always Breeds Tyranny: Lessons from Trump’s Second-Term Playbook
The chilling similarities to past tyrants—and why America can't look away anymore…
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." — George Orwell
It's axiomatic that dictators are corrupt. But understanding the inevitable relationship between corruption and dictatorship — and how it flows in both directions — is essential to understanding the direction the Trump Crime Family is taking America.
First, it's important to know that there's no such thing as a dictator who's not corrupt. Every dictator in world history, with the possible exception of Cincinnatus, has been massively corrupt.
To defy public opinion while skimming wealth out of the state's coffers and public commons, national leaders must use the typical tools of dictatorship to intimidate good government advocates into silence: violence, threats, capture of police agencies and courts, intimidation of the press, cowing politicians, and prisons.