[hunglee2]

What can I say?

You have to deliver. Failure to do so means people - stupid or otherwise - will reach for alternatives.

[krapp]

Authoritarians tend not to actually deliver, though. Their apparent effectiveness is based on propaganda and catharsis, not results or effective governance.

Trump has been a disaster for his base (even the extremists) yet they only ever even considered turning against him because of the Epstein stuff.

[miljanm]

neither do democrats in low/middle income countries