usmbguest5318
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Donald Trump has spent ~65 years in the word of fiats, dictates and orders followed without question based on the issuer's formal authority. It's called autocratic leadership (some call it dictative). In his early years he had to follow the orders. Then he got older and was the one giving the orders. Now he's POTUS and realizing that form of leading just doesn't work when the thing being led is a government and a country.
Where does authoritarian leadership style thing work?
If he were to do that, people would fall all over themselves to sing his praises, and when they do, it wouldn't be contrived. But a leader has to earn that; you can't browbeat people into doing it and browbeating them into silence doesn't work either. Trump so far, however, appears to be only able to lead by swinging the big bat and throwing balls and tantrums, but never by sitting in the dugout and letting his players shine on their own.
Where does authoritarian leadership style thing work?
- Households that have a strong person laying down the law.
- Ecclesiastical organizations
- Military academies and armies
- Public corporations, to a small extent
- Privately held companies
- Congress isn't really that beholden to him. Many of them ran ahead of him in the polls, held office before him, were going to retain their seats in spite of him.
- Voters -- Trump did win electorally, but he didn't come close to winning popularly, which for a so-called populist president is nothing near a resounding endorsement.
- Civil Service -- Trump has ragged on members of the workforce on which he must depend to implement his policies. They're going to be there when he's long gone. He has no idea of how difficult they can make his life. They can make him look like a complete fool if they decide they want to do that. That's their "nuclear option." Be that as it may, they beholden to Trump either.
- Trump himself -- The man has shown his word cannot be trusted. Hell, the man pretended to be a publicist and promoted himself. (He was rich as sh*t. Why didn't he just hire a publicist?) Who wants to follow the lead of a self-promoting charlatan? People will do their jobs, but such a leader won't elicit the best those people have to give. Moreover, his having ragged on them does not help in that regard.
If he were to do that, people would fall all over themselves to sing his praises, and when they do, it wouldn't be contrived. But a leader has to earn that; you can't browbeat people into doing it and browbeating them into silence doesn't work either. Trump so far, however, appears to be only able to lead by swinging the big bat and throwing balls and tantrums, but never by sitting in the dugout and letting his players shine on their own.