[metacritic12]

The guide starts with the presumption they gained power through democratic elections. Neither China nor most other historic authoritarian regimes started this way.

(Nazi Germany and Putin's Russia being the classical examples of democracies going authoritarian).

[fcatalan]

Hungary, Turkey, India, Venezuela come to mind. Poland, Brazil are also recent near misses. South Korea also had a recent oops. So a well trodden path.

[herval]

Many of which (Brazil included) had direct involvement from the masterminds behind Agent Orange top (and they’re of course trying to bring them back https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/23/brazil-bolso... )