It doesn’t make sense until one accepts that all the tragedies you list are not the product of stupidity but are instead intentional.
Brandon is doing what The Beast was supposed to do. His is Bammy’s third term the one designed to fulfill his promise to transform the United States.
The prerequisite to transforming the US is destruction of the middleclass. Do this, and all authoritarian outcomes are guaranteed.
Never underestimate stupidity !
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
(Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)
Friedrich von Schiller