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Because everyone in power across the globe realizes with 100% certainty that WW3 will start in less than 5 years. When that happens there will be a global redrawing of maps and an unprecedented volume of wealth will flow upwards to the .01%.
The closer you are to power, the closer you are to the spoils of the biggest internationally coordinated heist in human history. So while everyone realizes exactly who and what he is, they are all willing to play ball and let him be Caesar because they know that their careers will last longer than his and when the bombs start falling THEY will be among the chosen to form the next generation of leaders. All of maga are in increasingly distant orbits from the nucleus but as long as your group can push yourselfs above the next group at minimum you're not at the bottom.
It's not a race to the top if everyone locks arms and declares themselves part of the top. Fiefdoms will be carved out for oligarchs. City States will be awarded to top donars. Above the law will become an official status for those wealthy enough to purchase a literal get out of jail free card.
Ultimately this will end as all empires, more war. More revolutions. The America I die in will not contain 50 states. In a hundred years the former USA will have been balkenized and exist as a fractured mess of poverty and resource wars with one or two walled in Dubais scattered amongst the rubble.
History will be unable to distinguish the trajectory of the USSR from the USA and we will exist in the social memory as examples of hubris and failure for a hundred generations.
Sweet dreams all.