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Orbán's Hungarian regime has often been characterized as modern authoritarianism or a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy," one in which power is accumulated by the ruling party over time through creative quasi-legal means.

Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.

It would be a first-order error in reasoning and inference to separate Trump’s style of personalist rule and autocracy from his personality and mind.

Trump has yet to give remarks advocating against autocracy and authoritarianism in his second term.

All of this adds up to a dramatic turn away from democracy towards autocracy.