Tag: dictator

Recently, Manbij has fallen under the control of Kurdish militias and their allies. And that is only a rough summary of the city’s grim and complex history.

History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.

Heinous outcomes are inevitable if Trump is able to get away with relentlessly targeting law and order as his prime opponent.

For now, it’s grin and bear it time, enduring one more round of crazed Trumpism until the zombie is declared dead and buried.

“This is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame.”

Democracy is about means, while dictatorship is about ends. Trump uses any means available to achieve his own ends.

Driven by a hatred of “the other” and infused with narratives of decline and victimization, fascist politics trade in an incendiary rhetoric of fear, demonization and violence.

Separating children from their families has been characteristic of the biggest dictators of the modern era.