A very dense, scholarly article about the rise of patrimonialism over the past two decades.
Basically, the breakdown between "authoritarian" and "democratic" is not too helpful at describing this moment in time. Patrimonialism is "strong man" politics. Trump is patrimonial. So is Putin. To defeat a thing, you must first understand it. It's also why it might be hard to transfer whatever grip Trump has on his cultists to a drip like Ron DeSantis.
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