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Make this a contest between fast new trains and an aging autocrat, and California wins.—
Joe Mathews,
Mercury News,
2 Aug. 2025 -
That lag time has been criticized across Europe, with officials and experts asking why Trump is giving additional time to an autocrat who has hardly wavered in his desire to subjugate Ukraine.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
15 July 2025
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He was later toppled by a military coup in 1966, which was allegedly backed by the CIA, after he was cast as a dictator.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Aug. 2025
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The retiring wrestler plays an ex-Special Forces operative who takes a gig escorting a journalist into the jungles of South America to interview a dictator.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
1 Aug. 2025
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President Trump is, once again, testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim by making the once unimaginable—an American tyrant ordering a military occupation of our own capital—a terrifying reality.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, a swaggering trickster figure, clashes with the institution’s quiet tyrant, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), in a battle not just of wills, but of worldviews: chaos versus order, freedom versus conformity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 2025
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The Egyptian monarch is often cited as the most likely candidate for the pharaoh mentioned in Exodus, though an explicit name was never given in the Old Testament.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
21 May 2025
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Could an Egyptian pharaoh or a Chinese emperor have used a stiff drink or two to build their kingdoms?—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Historically, Chinese strongmen have cycled through multiple successors before making their final selection.—
TYLER JOST,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
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Moreover, to any self-respecting strongman, the very notion of an independent power center is offensive, especially one that is expressly designed to take key policy decisions out of the political realm.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution frightened monarchies and despots around the world without a single bullet or gunboat.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 2025
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His personal goal was surely the vanity of wanting to have never been wrong and the superpower of always being right—George Orwell speaks of the theological nature of totalitarians, who must constantly alter the past to claim to be always right in the present.—
Rebecca Solnit
April 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2021
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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Public disorder would discredit the local rulers in the eyes of their Papal overlords and possibly lead to dismissal from power.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
31 July 2025
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As a late-night host, Letterman often mocked his corporate overlords at NBC and CBS.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 July 2025
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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