despot

Because wherever you look, despots are on the march.

Some find him to be a joke, while minor and major despots look upon him in a combination of wonder and fellowship.

Cutting funding to these outlets is a "reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked in the information space", he said.

He’s not a father, a king, a despot or a dictator.

In 1796, George Washington warned us in his Farewell Address that the nation would suffer without an educated electorate and with the rise of a self-serving despot who rejects public liberty.