“The common feature of all autocratic strongmen — or, in the case of Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) in The Regime, an autocratic strongwoman — is weakness.
“They tend to be vain, impressionable, insecure, and often moronic, and their only answer to a crisis (or even just a petty slight) is violence and oppression, enforced by the military and supported by bureaucratic sycophants and media propagandists.
“They promote themselves through nationalist kitsch, hold power through “free and fair” elections that are anything but, and are thoroughly insulated in a palace bubble of luxury and paranoia.”
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