Former president Donald Trump tosses hats into the crowd before addressing attendees during an event in on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) July 26, 2022 From Trump to Putin: Why are people attracted to tyrants? Agata Mirowska, Neoma Business School; Raymond B. Chiu, Redeemer University, and Rick Hackett, McMaster University For our societies to survive, we must take action to figure out the psychology behind an attraction to tyrants — or we will be led in the future by fear-mongering, war-mongering tyrannical liars.