User blog comment:Devil fruit user/Crocodile and Alabasta/@comment-1595565-20130918181645/@comment-71.13.82.190-20130918200632

I think what he was going for was that Crocodile may have tried copying some of Dof's plan to take over a country. So what we are seeing now is what could have resulted had the SHs not come along to stop Crocodile. We have no idea if Dof's group was secret before taking over, we don't know for sure the monarch was disliked, only he was disliked after Dof took control.