{"id":4599,"date":"2025-02-25T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:38:15","slug":"brian-klaas-i-study-despots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/25\/brian-klaas-i-study-despots\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Klaas: \u201cI study despots.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not too long ago, I discovered the work of Brian Klaas on how despots gain power. It is due to their personality (psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists) and the public&#8217;s attraction to them. He develops his theses in the following books:<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Despot&#8217;s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The Despot&#8217;s Apprentice: Donald Trump&#8217;s Attack on Democracy, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How  It Changes Us, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n<p>There are also many youtube presentations in which he explains his views:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why psychopaths rise to power | Brian Klaas\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpyIZ4DGIK8?start=58&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, I discovered the work of Brian Klaas on how despots gain power. It is due to their personality (psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists) and the public&#8217;s attraction to them. He develops his theses in the following books: The Despot&#8217;s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy, 2016 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/25\/brian-klaas-i-study-despots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brian Klaas: \u201cI study despots.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump-the-paradigm-of-a-crude-bullshitter","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}