Why is anyone surprised?
He is the state. The state is him.
As far as the left is concerned.
True, and this current generation truly does not think anything is wrong with this merger. They see it as completely natural.
That’s hard for us to get our mind around. We point out when they merge the political campaign with the government, private industry with government.
We think we win the argument by proving it. And they are actually puzzled as to why that matters to us. Nazis mean as much to todays college kid as Louis XIV. Just some historical thingy,,, hated jews.
They shrug and say “yeah? What’s wrong with that?”