It's true enough that there's a high level of satisfaction with this dictatorship among voters. When half of them are beneficiaries of course they'll be satisfied with a government that doles out more of Other People's Money to them. But I wouldn't get too complacent about the stock exchange's non-collapse just yet. It's not exactly exuberant right now. Make no mistake, the Evening Post's epithets will be shown to be accurate soon enough.
Male politicians tend to be short men with thin skins.
Dictators notoriously are.