Excellent analysis. Depressing beyond words and totally accurate.
I have been saying, from 2016 and probably earlier, that those in the palace celebrate each night, patting themselves on the back for duping their rabid supporters.
Didn’t the recent head honcho speaking in a stadium to basically an uneducated* crowd say to them “ I love the uneducated?” Those in adoration of him, read the entire gathering, cheered deliriously even though he was insulting them.
* just to clarify, he also has educated supporters