Humiliation is a key part of dictatorships.

- https://psyche.co/ideas/the-history-of-humiliation-points-to...

Political humiliation needs audiences. We're seeing that by being unable to stop hegseth from live streaming a firing squad execution of a criminal. We can't stop it, as Americans. That's humiliating and that's a loss of control.

So they're pulling out all the stops, this current American Administration, on the dictatorship show.