as in ruler
one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority
European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God
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Trump admiringly invoked autocrats and Harris noted a raft of former Trump staffers were voting for her.
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
Republicans baselessly blamed Democrats for the shooting, and Biden and the Democrats went back to describing Trump as a liar and a felon and an aspiring autocrat.
—Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
And, as Melissa Gira Grant points out in The New Republic, Vance has praised the autocrat Viktor Orbán’s drive to raise Hungary’s birth rate.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The International Olympic Committee has functioned as financier and enabler of autocrats with world-destructive designs as bloody-minded as any historical tyrant.
—Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
Republicans baselessly blamed Democrats for the shooting, and Biden and the Democrats went back to describing Trump as a liar and a felon and an aspiring autocrat.
—Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
And, as Melissa Gira Grant points out in The New Republic, Vance has praised the autocrat Viktor Orbán’s drive to raise Hungary’s birth rate.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The International Olympic Committee has functioned as financier and enabler of autocrats with world-destructive designs as bloody-minded as any historical tyrant.
—Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
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“Autocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autocrat. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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