despot

“The kind of outcome where you have a military that is used as the tool of a despot — I don’t think we’re particularly close to that,” said Friedman, of Defense Priorities.

The insight into Trump’s character — and character is what Trump does — comes from seeing how he goes from desperate to despot.

An orange-tinted despot seemed relatively harmless compared to the ones in their ancestral lands, so they didn’t view Trump as much of a threat.

But then “the country was suddenly threatened by this wannabe despot” while he was a leader on House Intelligence, he said, and “things changed dramatically.”

It is probably enough of a thrill to watch Daryl dispatch with zombies and despots using a medieval flail, or Carol stalk around centuries-old French villages like a commando.