despot

We have propped up puppets and despots and taken down democratically elected governments with the regularity of the seasons.

We aren’t in danger of being taken over by a despot.

Our America is not ruled by a petty, vindictive despot wannabe with an outrageous history of criminal and socially abhorrent behavior who imagines he is king.

Equally, they are tools for establishing superstitions, glorifying despots and dignifying atrocity.

The Uzbek despot distinguished himself by “boiling his enemies, slaughtering his poverty-stricken people when they protest, and conscripting armies of children for slave labour,” according to The Guardian.