The incidence of substantial wifely political power should be zero; it is significantly above zero with dictators. I think we pretty much agree on that. And the actress angle is interesting, and it makes sense. After all, dictators are in large part actors.
“And the actress angle is interesting, and it makes sense.”
It does. A lot of actresses experience a substantial amount of starvation/poverty and are largely alienated from society in a large part. And they seem to have such a dark spot in their souls. I think a lot of dictators get involved with actresses because they share their alienation and contempt for society in general.
And actresses have a warped view of reality, they make excellent propaganda ministers.