1/6 One of the biggest threats Trump represents is the idea that he can't be a dictator because he's too dumb.
Dictators are terrible leaders. It's why they need to be dictatorial. They're also often quite mediocre, even poor, at almost everything.
What they have in spades in overconfidence and cruelty, often combined with stupidity. Hitler was astonishingly dumb, particularly in military matters (some generals referred to him as "that corporal," but he had the power to execute them).