created by the dictator's pen and phone is easily erased and replaced
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/05/lessons-obama-era-foreign-policy-officials-should-learn-from-trump/560387/
It's hard to get things done within the construct of the gvmt, but easy to do what you want as dictator. It just isn't easy to keep it in place that way.