Should things go really badly for a leader more in touch with the spin that props his ego than with reality, then that leader can see things go this badly:
I'm not saying that this will happen to Donald Trump.
I'm not saying that this will happen to Donald Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.