Well, they kind of are idiots, because they have no foresight. It would cost them nothing to throw a carrot to the populace once in a while in order to mask the meanness of their other policies, but they don't. They don't initiate anything good, ever; they never try to win hearts and minds, which is unwise when you're trying to build an authoritarian state, rather than just maintain one. All they have to defend themselves with is a corrupt, juvenile, transparent philosophy of greed that they're pursuing way too fast. They can't keep power this way. They should be slowly turning up the heat on the sad, tired frogs that the American people have become. Instead, they're swaggering towards the frogs carrying a flamethrower and cackling about how delicious they're going to be. This is not a winning strategy. There's no art, no nuance. If Lex Luthor were a real person, he'd be disgusted by their ineptitude.

In any case. The FBI will be telling us all pretty soon exactly how not-smart they are.