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In politics, a strongman is a type of authoritarian political leader—civilian or military—who exerts control through military enforcement and has, or has claimed to have, strong popular support. Strongmen typically claim to have widespread popular support, portray themselves as the only one capable of solving the country's problems, and ...
The former president's attempts to put a positive spin on the term are consistent with his alarmingly authoritarian instincts.
One study claims that India's political culture since the decline of the Congress' single-handed dominance over national politics from the 1990s onwards as a fallout of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement & Mandal Commission protests has paved way for personality cults centered around leaders of the small regional parties, [86] derived from hero ...
Trump sees Orbán as the kind of strongman – unencumbered by legal and political restraints – that he’d like to be. Orbán also frequently genuflects to Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
Donald Trump is moving to assert total dominance over the Republican Party in a harbinger of the strongman rule he envisages for his possible second term, following his twin triumphs in Iowa and ...
A strongman is a person who performs feats of strength. Strongman or Strong Man may also refer to: Political strongman, a term for an authoritarian political leader, usually head of a military dictatorship; Strongman game, a physical strength carnival attraction also known as a high striker; Strongman (comics), a Marvel Comics character
All India Grassroots Congress; abbr. AITC) is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. [19] It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West Bengal under her leadership.
How postliberal Christians came to embrace a political movement at odds with their values.