Why Do Men in Power Keep Self-Destructing Over the Same Stupid Mistakes?

Another powerful man destroys his career over stupid mistakes. Why do men in power keep self-destructing? The pattern is becoming an epidemic.
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Another powerful man destroys his career over stupid mistakes. Why do men in power keep self-destructing? The pattern is becoming an epidemic.

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