Donald Trump and Emperor Hirohito, when faced with a hopeless battle and impending consequences for their time in office, relied on the same tactics. Both fed an alternate reality to their people which insisted there was still hope for victory.  Both weaponized the same kind of hatred and fear of the opposition. Both demanded the same kind of unquestioning, self-sacrificing loyalty. Both manipulated and used their own people into fighting a hopeless battle to save their own cowardly skin.