petty tyrant

“They did not struggle, sacrifice and lay down their lives, only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms, only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant,” Harris said.

The IRS too often rules as a petty tyrant within its realm of authority.

It is entirely possible that he took all those dangerously sensitive documents simply because he figured they belonged to him and then he resisted returning them because a petty tyrant never gives in to his adversaries or admits a mistake.

He’s reviled as a “petty tyrant” by conservative talk show hosts for pushing coronavirus vaccine passports and a “NIMBY” by liberal activists for opposing new development; he’s beloved by unions, who credit him with raising the county’s minimum wage, and loathed by “smart growth” advocates, who don’t understand why he so often opposes building housing near transit.

And when a conservative talk show host called Elrich a “covidian petty tyrant,” he did little more than scoff.