Say we had a US senator who decided to become president by invading his own state through a shady corporation controlled by the same senator under a poorly disguised alias, inciting destabilized confidence in the current presidency and calling for the election of a new senator. Then, after his second term is almost up, he declares war against himself by having this same shady corporation build an army to help a sham organization secede from the US, allowing him to stay in power unconstitutionally and get him an army composed of genetically engineered beings. Then he kills his own allies years later (right after the war ends) and declares the US to be an empire headed by him, and then have no resistance against him for almost twenty years. Does that make sense to anybody? Because that is what happens in the PT.