# strongmans playbook (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover strongmans playbook. Page: Feed: --- ## [How Democracies Fight Back, Part One: What Institutional Resistance Looks Like Under Trump](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-democracies-fight-back-part-one) _2026-08-16 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ A president who treats court rulings as suggestions, and an attorney general who treats independence as a talking point. ## [How Trump's America Is Engineering a System That Cannot Lose](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-trumps-america-is-engineering) _2026-08-10 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ How Marcos, Franco, and Lukashenko tried to design their own permanence, and why Trump’s America is engineering the same system ## [In Trump's America, Independent Institutions Are Learning What Happens When They Resist.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/in-trumps-america-independent-institutions) _2026-08-02 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Part 9 of The Strongman's Playbook: strangle civil society, and the citizens who disagree have no institutions through which to act on that disagreement. ## [In Trump's America, Loyalty Is Being Made Profitable. History Shows Where That Leads.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/in-trumps-america-loyalty-is-being) _2026-07-26 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Strongmen do not survive on fear alone. They create supporters with a financial stake in the regime's survival. Self-interest is more durable than conviction. ## [🎙️ Watch: "They're Eating the Dogs." Trump's Manufactured Enemy — and What History Says Comes Next.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/watch-theyre-eating-the-dogs-trumps) _2026-07-23 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ 🎙️ Morning Comments — The Planet, The Strongman's Playbook Part 7 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208228455/46b09ba056d7cb0168552a6b2c7f1a90.mp3) ## [Trump Called Democrats Communists 81 Times in Two Weeks. History Knows This Technique.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/trump-called-democrats-communists) _2026-07-22 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ How Orbán manufactured Hungary’s enemies, and Bolsonaro built a communist conspiracy — and why Trump is following the same script ## [How Trump's America Is Using History the Way Every Strongman Uses It: As a Weapon](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-trumps-america-is-using-history) _2026-07-12 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Orbán spent fifteen years rewriting Hungarian history through schools, museums, and public space. Trump is doing it faster and more visibly — but the technique is identical. ## [How Trump Is Using the Law the Way Peru's and South Korea's Strongmen Did. They Both Received Life Sentences.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-using-the-law-the-way) _2026-07-05 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Part 5 of The Strongman's Playbook: The system does not need to convict everyone. It needs only to make clear that the law applies differently depending on where you stand in relation to power. ## [I Have Loved America Since I Was a Boy. That Makes This Harder to Write.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/i-have-loved-america-since-i-was) _2026-07-04 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ The country I have admired since my childhood in Europe is rewriting its own story. Here is what I see. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NgRZIaJIHsl1) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## ["You're Fired." Trump Can Now Say That to the People Who Protect You From Fraud, Nuclear Risk, and Unsafe Products.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/youre-fired-trump-can-now-say-that) _2026-06-29 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ How step 1 of the Strongman's Playbook made today's ruling possible, what I wrote yesterday, and what Morning Compass reported this morning.