10/14/2026
From Canadian Substack writer Dean Blundell:
“Here’s the through-line for today: you are watching the strongman playbook run out of pages in real time. The payoff from a hostile dictator, out in the open with the term sheet attached. The loyalist of eight years dumped in a dumpster the moment she became an invoice. The courtier hired for flattery who can’t locate her own bar card. The staged rally with the empty seats hidden behind a flag while a woman gets punched in the stands and the President mocks her weight. This is not what strength looks like. This is what the end of the act looks like, and every autocrat in history has performed this exact final scene.”
