They must be scared shitless or high on power.

[Warpy]

91. It's a bit of both, actually

The flip side of megalomania is always raging paranoia. Every one of the bureaucrats who is embarrassed by exposure thinks the world came into being with his birth and will wink out of existence with his disgrace and death. They're all out to get him because deep down, he knows he's not up to the job, although that fact might not quite register consciously.

I come from a family of bipolars, so I've seen plenty of this in action. First, they're full of ideas and with boundless enthusiasm, then they get frustrated by the slowness of everyone and everything around them, then they feel they're the only ones capable of doing anything to save us all, followed quickly by the dark forces trying to shut them down.

This is a bit of what's at work with a fascist government starting to run amok.