"Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey," Brennan tweeted.
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This is where the fight against kakistocracy, and its actors, will gain momentum.
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What we're looking at, all too obviously, is an American kakistocracy — rule by the worst.
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" And former CIA Director John Brennan told Trump his "kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey.
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" John Brennan, replying to the president on Twitter: "Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey.
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Baleful words with archaic roots rattle in the mouth like loose teeth: plutocracy, kleptocracy, gerontocracy, kakistocracy.
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Many people have described the Trump administration as a kakistocracy — rule by the worst — which it is.
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We are, instead, living in a kakistocracy, a nation ruled by the worst, and we need to face up to that unpleasant reality.
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It happens every single time a veteran or a widow or a Gold Star parent stands up to blood-and-soil nationalist kakistocracy.
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" And on May 21 he seethed: "It's so embarrassing with these ignorant, immoral, bigots decimating our democracy and becoming a kakistocracy right before our eyes.
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William L. Kovacs is author of Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens and a blog of the same name.
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A kakistocracy, emboldened with blameless impunity for its falsehoods, eclipses even the smallest shreds of hope, and it does it even better, more seamlessly, when it's ugly.
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Beyond that, our trend toward oligarchy — rule by the few — is also looking more and more like kakistocracy — rule by the worst, or at least the most unscrupulous.
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William L. Kovacs, author of Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens and former senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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We will find ourselves living in a kakistocracy — a word that recently only spelling bee nerds knew, a word the rest of us will soon become very familiar with.
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These events have truly ushered in a post-factual democracy with a tsunami of false information that has manifested kakistocracy in many of the most powerful countries in the world.
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William L. Kovacs is author of Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens and a former senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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It's outrageous that the country's being forced to endure four full years of lawless kakistocracy, but surely, I thought, the majority would put an end to it in the next election.
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We'll have to face the fact that America has become another fragile state — a kakistocracy, where laws are passed and broken without consequence, where good people lay low and where wolves are left free to prey on the weak.
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Of course, they will have to begin with the Trump administration, and the business of keeping it from pushing the country closer to autocracy, extending its kleptocratic corruption and the form of government known as kakistocracy ("rule by the worst").
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Similarly, "Late Afternoon in the Forest" (281), a painting in acrylic, spray paint, and collage on muslin by David Wojnarowicz, attains a renewed severity in light of the kakistocracy — a term ("rule by the worst") recently popularized by Paul Krugman — that took power one tumultuous month ago.
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At the end of 2016, kakistocracy — government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens — is taking the lead from democracy and carefully considered political moves, and the majority are plugged into this newly curated "psychedelic cultural" reality where content, the news feed and hearsay have taken control.
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The danger is that once the sense of crisis is past the elite will go back to protecting their own (the insider anger at Kirsten Gillibrand for participating in Al Franken's defenestration is an example of how that impulse still endures), while the memory of all these revelations confirms the populist belief that Trump's gang of cronies is just normal for D.C. In fact our elite is rotten and deserves judgment, yet Trump's mix of kleptocracy and kakistocracy is worse.
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A kakistocracy (, ) is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.
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Democracies can be either republics or constitutional monarchies. Oligarchy is a power structure where a minority rules. These may be in the form of anocracy, aristocracy, ergatocracy, geniocracy, gerontocracy, kakistocracy, kleptocracy, meritocracy, noocracy, particracy, plutocracy, stratocracy, technocracy, theocracy, or timocracy. Autocracies are either dictatorships (including military dictatorships) or absolute monarchies.
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A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete and substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer. The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the military. Occasionally, military dictatorship is called khakistocracy. The term is a portmanteau word combining kakistocracy with khaki, the tan-green camouflage colour used in most modern army uniforms.
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The Mouldy Lovers are an Australian Queensland Music Award nominated musical group with seven members, which formed in early 2010. They perform gypsy- influenced ska music with punk, reggae, Romani music and Klezmer elements. The band came to prominence in 2011 with the release of their second extended play, Kakistocracy, and frequent performances and festival appearances in Queensland and New South Wales. Their debut album Yonder Ruckus was released in January 2013, receiving national Australian airplay on Triple J and charting at number one for multiple weeks on 4ZZZ.
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You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but will not destroy America... America will triumph over you." Axios quoted Brennan tweeting a response to Trump's harsh comments about James Comey: "Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey... we have the opportunity to emerge from this nightmare stronger & more committed to ensuring a better life for all Americans, including those you have so tragically deceived." On July 16, 2018, Brennan tweeted his reaction to Trump's comments at the 2018 Helsinki summit meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin: Trump responded by calling Brennan a "total lowlife". In December 2018, Brennan tweeted that Trump should prepare for the "forthcoming exposure of your malfeasance & corruption.
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