But it isn't. He has a couple of tools he uses to measure loyalty of and to debase his followers. This is the former, it makes it very easy to see who is loyal and who is not. The tool to debase those that are loyal to him: he makes them repeat lies and accept increasingly morally decrepit things, kind of like how a pimp operates. We're currently on the "public executions" phase of that tool. These are not things that should be ignored and aren't simply the actions of a decaying mind.