Stupider, yes, but they seem to have learned one thing - fire all the competent people and replace them with lackeys who won’t try to interfere with implementing your intrusive thoughts simply because they’re illegal or pointless or impossible to do.

The last bunch were stupid too. People made fun of Hitler’s sub-literate use of German and his lack of education. Most of his flunkies were dimwits too. It didn’t stop them committing wars of aggression, mass murders and genocide, though.

The odd exception was Mussolini, who was a journalist and novelist prior to becoming the gurning bullet-headed thug he was later famous for being. And, if we’re talking about psychopathic shit-sacks in general and not just fascists, Stalin was an award-winning poet before finding his vocation as mass murderer and totalitarian despot.