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Dictatorship for Dummies: A Masterclass by the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
When your regime is part mafia spoof, part constitutional crisis, things stop being funny real fast…

Thom Hartmann
Mar 25, 2025


The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight was a 1971 movie starring Robert DeNiro about a mafia family in New York that’s led by a buffoon who surrounds himself with other incompetents and thus seems to always screw everything up. It’s the perfect metaphor for the Trump administration.

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Given how Republicans in Congress and candidate Trump peeled the bark off Hillary Clinton for a handful of Secret emails that accidentally ended up on her personal email server, you’d think this will lead to resignations and possibly even prosecutions for violations of multiple laws and policies regarding classified information.

Sadly, that’s unlikely; like the bumbling Mafia family in the movie, this bunch is similarly led by an incompetent criminal (convicted of 34 felonies and found liable for “what is commonly understood as rape,” among other things).

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Dictatorial regimes are famously corrupt, and a hallmark of most is the ignorance and incompetence of the people the dictator has surrounded himself with; this, though, is beginning to approach the level of street theater. It’d be funny if it weren’t so dangerous. ...............(more)

https://hartmannreport.com/p/dictatorship-for-dummies-a-masterclass-56a