autocrat

Our analysts looked at the “indicators” we would see, overseas, when an autocrat rises and begins to take power, and what they saw was that those indicators are happening here.

After all, a majority of the countries in that 11-member group — Russia, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — are presided over by autocrats.

That’s been tried, and instead autocrats take over and crush dissent, boots on throats.

Every autocrat begins by silencing their country’s artists — because laughter is the enemy of fear.

The success of any autocrat lies in their ability to mesmerize their supporters and mentally paralyze the resistance.