A victim of his success to some extent. He has crafted a voter base who only responds to simple and absolute truths, such as Russia and the West being locked in an eternal struggle, the gays are coming for your kids, Putin the only man who can lead Russia and so on. Once one of those pillars start to wobble they're all going down. You've got yourself a mikado pile of inflexible axioms and his own people might just go for the next tough guy.
A victim of his success to some extent. He has crafted a voter base who only responds to simple and absolute truths, such as Russia and the West being locked in an eternal struggle, the gays are coming for your kids, Putin the only man who can lead Russia and so on. Once one of those pillars start to wobble they're all going down. You've got yourself a mikado pile of inflexible axioms and his own people might just go for the next tough guy.