Tag: Dictator
Far From a Kink, Donald Trump’s Dictator Fetish Puts Him Squarely in the Mainstream
March 22, 2024
The American elite has long had a soft spot for “our sons of bitches” like those Trump now befriends.
Donald Trump is rarely happier than when he’s enjoying the company of an autocrat or dictator. Indeed, it often seems that for Trump one of the chief perks of
This Is How Trump Becomes a Dictator
Forever Wars
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August 3, 2023
The former president doesn’t want to destroy the security state. He wants to bend it to his will.
Upon a white horse rides Donald Trump, man of destiny, determined to recapture the White House
Sadiq Khan attacked as a ‘left-wing dictator’ as car chief calls out ULEZ ‘lies’
Sadiq Khan has been branded a “left-wing dictator” after ignoring previous claims over his Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) plan.
Last year, Khan insisted that increasing the ULEZ zone was not “pre-determined” until he received the feedback of a consultation held among residents and stakeholders.
A recent by-election in Uxbridge was also fought over the issue with Conservatives holding onto the seat despite a 20-point deficit in the national polls.
However, Khan has since pressed ahead with his ULEZ expansion
The Myth of the Effective Dictator
Last week, at a Fox News town hall (where else?), former President Donald Trump called China’s despot, Xi Jinping, a “brilliant” guy who “runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.” Lest anyone doubt his admiration, Trump added that Xi is “smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy.”
Trump is not alone. Many in the United States and around the globe see the allure of a dictator who gets things done and makes the trains run
Mario Vargas Llosa Returns to the Dictator Novel
There were two powers running Guatemala after the Second World War, and only one of them was the government. The other, an American corporation called the United Fruit Company, was known inside the country as the Octopus, because it had tentacles everywhere. It was Guatemala’s largest employer and landowner, and it controlled the country’s only Atlantic port, almost every mile of the railroads, and the nation’s sole telephone and telegraph facilities. U.S. State Department officials had siblings in the upper