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A dictator is a political leader who
possesses
absolute power. A state which is ruled by a dictator is called a
dictatorship. The word originated as the title of a
magistrate in the
Roman Republic appointed by the
Senate
to rule the republic in times of emergency (see
Roman dictator and
justitium).[2]
Like the term "tyrant"
(which was originally a non-pejorative Ancient Greek title), and to a lesser
degree "autocrat",
"dictator" came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for
oppressive rule. Thus, in modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to
describe a leader who holds or abuses an extraordinary amount of
personal power. Dictatorships are often characterised by some of the
following: suspension of
elections
and
civil liberties; proclamation of a
state of emergency;
rule by decree;
repression of political opponents; not abiding by the
rule of
law procedures, and
cult of personality. Dictatorships are often
one-party or
dominant-party states.[3][4]
A wide variety of leaders coming to power in different kinds of regimes, such as
military juntas,
one-party states,
dominant-party states, and civilian governments under a personal rule, have
been described as dictators. They may hold
left or
right-wing views, or may be
apolitical.
Some dictators have been masters of
crowd manipulation, such as Mussolini and Hitler. Others were more prosaic
speakers, such as Stalin and Franco. Typically the dictator's people seize
control of all media, censor or destroy the opposition, and give strong doses of
propaganda
daily, often built around a
cult of personality.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator
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January 19: Trump Is Not
a Dictator
Americans have worried about a tyrant taking over their country since before it
even existed. Some of the framers of the Constitution
imagined that a strong executive branch would be too close to monarchy, and
debates over whether the president had too much power stretched into the
19th century and continue to this day. Republicans
accused Barack Obama of acting like a "king" for issuing an executive order
on immigration; progressives
charged George W. Bush with moving the US toward fascism. But no one has
made people afraid of autocracy quite like Donald Trump.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3n8jg/trump-is-not-a-dictator
June 10:
Fox News host Abby
Huntsman on Sunday bungled her voice-over of President Trump's arrival in
Singapore ahead of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by referring
to it as a meeting "between the two dictators."
"There we have him. There is the president of the United States, Donald Trump,
about to walk down those stairs, stepping foot in Singapore as we await this
historic summit with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un," Huntsman said on
"Fox and Friends Weekend."
"Anthony, talk to us about this moment," she continued, speaking to guest
Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director. "This is history
we are living, regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two
dictators. What we are seeing right now, this is history."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fox-and-friends-host-accidentally-calls-trump-a-dictator-watch
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February 26: While
America’s long-standing allies have received
nothing
but
scorn from him for the last two years, the real-estate developer turned
president can’t get enough of strongmen whose brutal tactics he’d love nothing
more than to adopt in the U.S. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; Rodrigo Duterte;
Vladimir Putin; Mohammed bin Salman—he
loves
’em
all.
But while he’s utterly devoted to Putin for reasons that
may soon be revealed, and dotes on M.B.S. to the point that the Saudis were
given a free pass on murder by bone saw, there’s one authoritarian who seems
to have truly stolen Trump’s heart: Kim Jong Un. After a
slightly
rocky start, the president of the United States appears to be uniquely
obsessed with his North Korean friend, whose correspondence he carries around,
and with whom he told supporters he “fell
in love.” In fact, Trump is so smitten that whereas other people see a
barbaric murderer, he evidently sees a stand-up young man from whom Don
Jr. could learn a thi ng or two.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/trump-kim-jong-un-is-a-super-well-adjusted-dictator
February 28:
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he does not hold
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un responsible for Otto Warmbier's death after
Kim denied knowledge of the American student's maltreatment.
"He felt badly about it. He felt very badly," Trump said at a news conference
after his second summit with Kim, after saying they discussed the matter
privately. "He tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his
word."
North Korea released Warmbier, an American student, in June 2017 after more than
a year of imprisonment, returning him to the US in a coma. Warmbier, who was 22
at the time, was blind, deaf and never regained consciousness. He died days
after his return. US officials quickly blamed North Korea for the brain damage
that led to the young American's death.
Trump said he believed Kim's denial in part because it would not be in Kim's
interest for Warmbier to wind up in a coma. "I don't think that the top
leadership knew about it," Trump told reporters in Vietnam. "I don't believe
that he (Kim) would have allowed that to happen."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politics/trump-otto-warmbier-kim-jong-un/index.html
March 6:
Laurene Powell Jobs says President Trump’s attacks on the
press are “right out of a dictator’s playbook”
Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, which owns Pop-Up Magazine and has a
majority stake in the Atlantic.
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/3/6/18252237/laurene-powell-jobs-donald-trump-dictator-journalism-media-enemy-people-kara-swisher-recode-decode
March 10:
Qatari envoy arrives in Gaza, Hamas calls Abbas ‘dictator’
Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi entered Gaza on Sunday as PA President Mahmoud
Abbas appoints new PA Prime Minister.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Qatari-envoy-enters-Gaza-Hamas-calls-Abbas-dictator-583000
March 23:
Thailand's military dictator hopes to win over voters
In Thailand, a military junta seized power in 2014 and promised to hold quick
elections, which were delayed until this year. Now the country will finally vote
under a new constitution that that favors the junta. Will voters turn the
military out anyway?
https://www.dw.com/en/thailands-military-dictator-hopes-to-win-over-voters/av-48017216
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April 9:
Trump Is Helping to Bring About an Egyptian Dictatorship
Many of Sisi’s backers portray him as a defender of secular, modern values
against Islamist extremism. Trump
praised the Egyptian leader for “moving his country to a more inclusive
future” after the opening of the largest cathedral in the Middle East in Cairo
in January, and his daughter and adviser Ivanka also commended Egypt for “major
reforms aimed at empowering Egyptian women.” But the showpiece cathedral aside,
discrimination against Christians and other religious minorities
remains rampant. Women who have reported sexual harassment have been
arrested and prosecuted. Men
arrested for homosexuality are subjected to brutal and humiliating anal
exams.
The notion that Egypt is a steadfast ally in the fight
against terrorism is complicated by a
recent report from Human Rights First documenting the scale of
radicalization and ISIS recruitment in Egypt’s prisons. “It’s like a fire in a
forest,” said one former prisoner quoted in the report. “When you start off with
a cell of 200 people, you could have by the end of a year at least 100 of them
radicalized. It was happening everywhere I was detained.” The movement that
became al-Qaida
was born, to a large extent, in Egypt’s brutal prisons, but yet another
generation of U.S. policymakers is looking on approvingly as Egypt tries to
detain and torture radicalism into submission.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/trump-sisi-dictatorship-visit.html
April 11:
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/04/13/sudans-dictator-omar-al-bashir-is-forced-out-of-power
May 2:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler vowed a
"reckoning" Thursday after Attorney
General Bill Barr boycotted a scheduled hearing before the panel, speaking
in grave terms as he likened President Trump to a dictator and threatened the
Justice Department leader with contempt.
Nadler -- at a bizarre session complete with an empty chair for Barr where one
Democrat placed a prop chicken -- lashed out at both Barr and Trump, who has
vowed to fight all subpoenas amid an escalating confrontation with Congress over
an array of investigations. Barr himself has not been subpoenaed, and it's
unclear whether Democrats might take that step, but his DOJ has refused to
comply with a subpoena for the full Mueller report.
“The president of the United States wants desperately to prevent Congress from
providing any check whatsoever on even his most reckless decisions,” Nadler said
Thursday. “The challenge we face is that if we don’t stand up to him together,
today, we risk not being able to stand up to any president in the future.”
He added: “The very system of government of the United States, the system of
limited power, the system of not having a president as a dictator, is very much
at stake.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-likens-trump-to-dictator-while-threatening-barr-with-contempt-after-hearing-boycott
May 13:
Guatemala ex-dictator's daughter barred from presidential
race
Court rules Zury Rios cannot run due to constitutional ban on relatives of
leaders who came to power by force.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/guatemala-dictator-daughter-barred-presidential-race-190514001649420.html
May 26: The
President of the United States is erratic, illiterate, and doesn’t want to
know what he doesn’t know. The President has alienated former allies, befriended
or courted murderous dictators, and has repeatedly brought the country to the
brink of nuclear confrontation. The President lies constantly, knows that he is
lying, and demands that Administration officials lie for him, and often they do.
The President has waged war on the institutions of government, overseeing the
gutting of the State Department and the destruction of other federal agencies by
their own leaders, and effectively shut off media access to the Pentagon, the
State Department, and the White House. The President has acted to thwart
oversight of the Administration by other branches of government. The President
has never made a secret of despising the government itself: he has called it a
“swamp” and gleefully shut it down for thirty-five days, during a temper
tantrum. The President has not only failed to divest himself of his businesses
but has installed his children in and near the White House, openly using his
office for personal financial gain. The President has debased political culture
and language, using his bully pulpit to spew lies, hate, and personal insults
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-nancy-pelosis-tactics-affirm-the-trumpian-style-of-politics
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