Really, he sez. They all love me. Everything's fine.
It's Belshazzar at the feast, Der Fuhrer in the Berlin Bunker, ordering non-existent divisions to battle the Russian hordes, Mubarak on the TV declaring how his people love him and that he will never leave, on and on and on. The longer and more repressive the term in power, the more complete the break with reality.
'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.'--Euripides.
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