The tyrant’s biggest asset is his people’s loss of self-respect. Once you’ve got them willing to say anything to avoid being packed off to the gulag, you’ve got ’em where you want ’em.
Like so:
See how this “journalism professor” grovels. That’s what warms the cockles of a Democrat’s heart–total self-abasement. If you don’t find this display disgusting, better check if you can fog a mirror.