Unless that person is also popular with the masses. Then they are an “authoritarian populist” and the people are “brainwashed.”
Hey while we’re at it, what time is the 4 millionth military flyover at the sports game, again? I need to apply lotion to get ready to jerk off the flag.
Every government has a class character and is authoritarian against a certain class. When they accuse others of being “authoritarian” they really just mean “authoritarian against my social class”. To people like her, sending the military to repress a worker’s protest is not authoritarian, but redistribution of land is.
Whenever someone says “authoritarian,” you can mentally substitute in “Anyone the West doesn’t like, regardless of their actual poltics.”
Unless that person is also popular with the masses. Then they are an “authoritarian populist” and the people are “brainwashed.”
Hey while we’re at it, what time is the 4 millionth military flyover at the sports game, again? I need to apply lotion to get ready to jerk off the flag.
Every government has a class character and is authoritarian against a certain class. When they accuse others of being “authoritarian” they really just mean “authoritarian against my social class”. To people like her, sending the military to repress a worker’s protest is not authoritarian, but redistribution of land is.