Instapundit » Blog Archive » A VELVET FIST DICTATORSHIP: Do they not see the irony? The New York Times published an oped over t…: "A VELVET FIST DICTATORSHIP: Do they not see the irony? The New York Times published an oped over the weekend titled, “The New Dictators Rule by Velvet Fist,” penned by a couple of professors. Their thesis:
[A] new brand of authoritarian government has evolved that is better adapted to an era of global media, economic interdependence and information technology. The “soft” dictators concentrate power, stifling opposition and eliminating checks and balances, while using hardly any violence.
Um, yeah. Sound familiar? Eliminating checks and balances? Anyone?"
Ugh.
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