“When fires are small, we can smother them with a blanket or a bucket of sand. When they become conflagrations, all we can do is escape with our lives, retreat, and attempt to create fire breaks. So it is with the escalation of a leader with authoritarian tendencies to one who becomes a full-blown tyrant.”
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Ira Chaleff,
To Stop a Tyrant: The Power of Political Followers to Make or Brake a Toxic Leader
