Yeah usually it either shifts into a democracy, oligarchy, junta, or a new completely random dictator. It’s not exactly easy to predict but there is enough of a pattern to say there’s a good chance none of Trump’s spawn will be in charge.
Most dictators don’t die while still in power, but that’s mostly because most of them seize power when they’re relatively young. Often they’re generals in the army and aged 40 or something. That means they need to live 40ish years before dying and handing off power. In many cases they use their time in office to eliminate all opposition so that if they do live long enough to hand over power, it doesn’t matter if their sons are relatively weak.
Trump’s a unique case because he gained power in his 70s, so that’s not a lot of time to shape the country so that his failson can take over.
Why Vance and not Don Jr? Despots normally hand power down to their kids.
Not successfully. North Korea is a huge exception. Everywhere else, those kids don’t last long.
Yeah usually it either shifts into a democracy, oligarchy, junta, or a new completely random dictator. It’s not exactly easy to predict but there is enough of a pattern to say there’s a good chance none of Trump’s spawn will be in charge.
They may not last long, but it’s rare when the dictator is still in power at the end of his life, has kids and doesn’t try to hand off power to them.
Chiang Kai-shek -> Chiang Ching-kuo
François “Papa Doc” Duvalier -> Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier
Hafez al-Assad -> Bashar al-Assad
There aren’t a whole lot of dictators who died while still having power, but Franco didn’t, Mao didn’t, and Stalin didn’t.
Don Jr would be in over is head within five minutes.
Most dictators don’t die while still in power, but that’s mostly because most of them seize power when they’re relatively young. Often they’re generals in the army and aged 40 or something. That means they need to live 40ish years before dying and handing off power. In many cases they use their time in office to eliminate all opposition so that if they do live long enough to hand over power, it doesn’t matter if their sons are relatively weak.
Trump’s a unique case because he gained power in his 70s, so that’s not a lot of time to shape the country so that his failson can take over.