If you want to know what someone’s #character really is, watch them when they are in a position of #power:

Bonhoeffer’s argument is that the more someone becomes part of the establishment, the less an individual they become. A charismatic, exciting outsider, bursting with intelligence and sensible policies, becomes imbecilic the moment he takes office. It’s as if, “slogans, catchwords and the like… have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.”

https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil