From the time of Mussolini and Hitler there has been a playbook pursuant to which authoritarians and despots have taken and maintained power —think of the governments and leaders of Russia, China, North Korea, Syria, Iran, the Philippines, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and more than three dozen other countries around the globe. The the rules, More

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