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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths.
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Brian Winter,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic.
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Craig Gilbert,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
That pursuit was also driven by the transformation of conservatism itself—which, beginning in the Nineties, became ever more extremist, populist, anti-government, antidemocratic, and supportive of authoritarian measures.
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Terry M. Moe,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Bukele’s relationship with the U.S. grew more complicated at the start of the Biden administration, which was openly critical of some of his antidemocratic actions.
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Marcos Aleman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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Brian Winter,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic.
—
Craig Gilbert,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
That pursuit was also driven by the transformation of conservatism itself—which, beginning in the Nineties, became ever more extremist, populist, anti-government, antidemocratic, and supportive of authoritarian measures.
—
Terry M. Moe,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Bukele’s relationship with the U.S. grew more complicated at the start of the Biden administration, which was openly critical of some of his antidemocratic actions.
—
Marcos Aleman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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Navratilova defected from Czechoslovakia to the United States in 1975 at 18 years old, leaving a totalitarian regime to embrace American culture.
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Her character, June — called Offred to reflect her subservient role — was our entry point into the totalitarian world of Gilead, a patriarchal society in which handmaids are forced to bear the children of the elite.
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Dealing with extreme heat in India, where oppressive temperatures have become a matter of routine in recent years, revealed another disconnect.
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The Shah was so corrupt and oppressive that the 1979 revolution was almost inevitable.
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China is, of course, an authoritarian state which has been criticized for maintaining a mass-surveillance system, while Brazil regained democracy in 1985 after two decades of military dictatorship.
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s 2018 book, How Democracies Die, argues that the most decisive figures in the success or failure of an authoritarian attempt are the would-be authoritarian’s ideological allies.
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University students behind more than a year of protests against Vucic's increasingly autocratic rule in Serbia have been demanding early parliamentary elections for over a year but Vucic so far has refrained from setting the date.
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University students behind more than a year of protests against Vucic’s increasingly autocratic rule in Serbia have been demanding early parliamentary elections for over a year, but Vucic so far has refrained from setting the date.
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This magisterial polemic demonstrates how what may appear to be distant American history remains acutely relevant.
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But the magisterial opera composer Franz Schreker was shattered by the events of 1933 and died of a stroke the following year.
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This dooms the kingdom to the tyrannical rule of the villainous Priscilla (Nikki Glaser), who swoops in and snatches the throne.
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The bony villain is a warlock who stole the throne of Eternia from King Randor and now rules it with a tyrannical fist.
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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