Showing posts with label autocrat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autocrat. Show all posts
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Monday, April 10, 2023
Nayib Bukele is the pro-Trump right’s new favorite autocrat - Vox
Bukele's party won the country's legislative elections and gained a two-thirds majority in its Parliament. He wasted little time in securing power: In May of 2021, his party voted to remove the country's attorney general, who was investigating Bukele's party for corruption and clandestine negotiations with gangs, and all five judges on the Constitutional Court. All were replaced with Bukele allies.
An open letter issued at the time from 100 Latin American civil society organizations warned that "the illegitimate capture of judicial authorities connected to political power and the consequent disappearance of the principle of separation of powers are a dangerous precedent for democracy in the hemisphere."
This warning proved prescient..
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Top Cult Expert DISSECTS the MAGA Cult and how to BREAK THE SPELL | The Weekend Show - YouTube
Top psychologist and 'Cult Of Trump' author explores the mindset of MAGA Republican's blind loyalty to a dangerous autocrat.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Republicans view Putin more favorably than they do leading Democrats - The Washington Post
…Russian President Vladimir Putin operates within a well-established political framework. He is an autocrat with near-unilateral control over his country. Russia has elections, but no one is under the impression that the results will be allowed to pose a threat to Putin's power. Personal freedoms are constrained significantly; opponents of Putin's regime have a habit of succumbing to sudden illness and accidents.
Yet American Republicans view him slightly more positively than they do leading Democratic officials…
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Trump is a buffoon – but the next aspiring autocrat won't be so incompetent
...Long after Trump shuffles down the ramp to his post-presidency, there will be another: a Josh Hawley or a Ted Cruz or a Tom Cotton. We won't call their autocratic politics Trumpism, but they will be Trump-like...
Friday, November 6, 2020
Trump got nearly half of America to vote for him and it's heartbreaking
The most dangerous implication of this election is that millions accept a fictitious world created by an autocrat and marketed by Fox News....
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