El Salvador’s dictator, Nayib Bukele, and the United States’ wannabe, Donald Trump, helped clarify the duties and powers of dictators. I always thought that dictators, well, dictated.
If they don’t like a person, poof, the person is gone. Same for ideas and ideals, but now thanks to these two we see limitations. They have no power to release anyone from prison, like the Maryland man now locked up in El Salvador thanks to an error by the Trump administration. So the power of dictators is, after all, limited.
Wow. Who would have thought?
It’s like someone hid the keys. Or maybe dictators are told, well, sir, there never was a get out of jail card in this game. Or the gates only work one way. People can go in, but not out. Anyway, thanks to you two for clarifying all of this and proclaiming to the world that you are not as powerful as you pretend to be.
Gary Rummler, Whitefish Bay
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