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How common is the pattern of "person rises to power cultivating a saviour image, surrounds themselves with yesmen, does their best to silence all criticism, loses track of reality, makes increasingly big and obvious mistakes, loses/ruins much/everything", and is it a named phenomenon?

by /u/AlarmingAffect0 in /r/AskHistorians

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