Authoritarians

I gotta say that I do get some satisfaction watching the authoritarians Putin, Trump and DeSantis, start to fall.

So former fascists and authoritarians tried to regain power through democratic means.

There is nothing new in comparing opponents with violent authoritarians or extremists.

Unfortunately so were other authoritarians, as even Chaplin warned, and that may not be enough to overcome human stupidity.

Why, then, have would-be authoritarians and theocrats in the coalition taken aim at it first?

Would-be authoritarians like Trump, given a chance to return to power, do not have a record of moderating their views.

Both men are authoritarians bent on expanding executive power and crushing institutional opposition.

Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians.

In the age-old battle between authors wielding questions and authoritarians wielding answers, I am on the side of the authors.

Israel should be given full support to end this immoral atrocity perpetuated in the name of Allah by the poor indoctrinated serfs of the Islamist authoritarians.

It is a psychological tactic of authoritarians to make the focus on reading their whims and gnomic phrases and leaving the burden on others to interpret them and wait out the consequences.

Latin America’s authoritarians were never held accountable for willfully using migrants as a weapon against the U.S. Biden dismantled sanctions on Venezuela’s dictatorship, funneling money to prolong the dictatorship.

He admires leaders like Putin, Erdogan, Kim, Al-Assad, and Maduro because they are ruthless authoritarians whom the people cannot challenge.

Human rights activists and religious leaders in Vietnam and Myanmar are expressing reservations about President-elect Joe Biden's ability to keep authoritarians in check.

In the short term, this corrosive approach has paid off richly for friendly authoritarians.

It is almost axiomatic that authoritarians are going to authoritarian if a pandemic presents them with opportunities to do so.

It is has everything to do with "liberals" (hate that misleading label, seeing how they fundamentally are authoritarians now), because they have chosen to politicise the issue.

It’s not exactly new to say that real-life superheroes might well be psychotic authoritarians.

Other authoritarians around the world have taken note.

These types of armed militias and paramilitaries are given license to act by Donald Trump and other authoritarians.