The regime's thuggishness makes even a largely symbolic concession hard to swallow.
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Yet the key similarity between the two regimes is not their thuggishness but their economic ineptitude.
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Some of them are familiar with the thuggishness of China's police through their dealings on the mainland.
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Donald Trump, with his grotesque embrace of Putin's thuggishness, is not the man for that task or any other.
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It's a hilarious video—Serafiniowicz has also dubbed Trump's speeches with a posh accent—that also gets at Trump's inherent thuggishness.
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Not only does he admire dictators; he explicitly praises thuggishness, such as the mass murder of criminal suspects in the Philippines.
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Though Barbara is the sympathetic center of the story, she is not sanctified, nor is Ron merely a caricature of thuggishness.
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But he also faced envy-driven charges of malfeasance and thuggishness, which the author, who clearly admires his subject, leaves studiously unanswered.
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Each time the world sees how its intransigence and thuggishness is at odds with the image of harmony it wants to project.
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As Thomas Cromwell, More's prosecutorial nemesis, Todd Cerveris has thuggishness enough but not the bristling intelligence that elevated the lowborn Cromwell to power.
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His ad-libbing had that distinctly Cruz flavor of freeform hate; he views the world through a lens of anger, thuggishness and self-satisfaction.
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Like his new boss, Matthew Whitaker has a pattern of thuggishness, threats, scams and abusing the power of his office to wage partisan feuds.
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Mr. Mamet, the author of criminal comedies including "American Buffalo" and "Glengarry Glen Ross," had a much better bead on the poetics of thuggishness.
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Fourth would be to have the president's public image be affected by people in his orbit who have a certain aura of thuggishness around them.
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The opening tumult, presumably intended to show a society in terminal disrepair, merely brings to mind the Sharks and the Jets: The faux-thuggishness is singularly unconvincing.
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The province was not only riddled with local mafia groups infamous for their thuggishness, but it was also threatened by the conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the east.
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In 2015, the Almeida Theater premiered a Mike Bartlett play, "Game," that covered comparable terrain in the crossover of socially sanctioned thuggishness and the random savagery that plagues our streets.
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The reason for the sudden shift is not just horror at Mr. Trump's behavior, though the thuggishness of the firing and its seeming connection to the Russia matter are horrifying.
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But I felt a sense of deepened dread as I watched the Republican reaction: Faced with undeniable evidence of Trump's thuggishness, his party closed ranks around him more tightly than ever.
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Mr. Quevedo, a registered Democrat who was raised in West Tampa by parents who fled Cuba, says he is troubled by what he sees as thuggishness and racially charged language at Trump campaign rallies.
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Anthony Atamanuik, who does a much better Trump, grasped Trump's thuggishness and insecurity long before Baldwin did, and Baldwin has paid tribute to Atamanuik's superior impression by insecurely badmouthing the less successful comedian and actor on late night TV. Also, Baldwin gets the voice wrong.
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Well, the Republican Party may be obedient now, but there is just enough Never Trumping among those who were once the staunchest of conservatives to make it clear that the difference between constitutional conservatism and thuggishness is real and can be argued for, and maybe even partly won.
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I trust that's because all of you recognize that, even if I may have said some things that made you uncomfortable and with which you profoundly disagree, there is a vast difference between intellectual challenge and verbal thuggishness, between a robust and productive exchange of ideas and mere bombast, between light and heat.
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Trump has gone so far -- racial demagoguery and slurs, abuse of office, dictator appeasement, nepotism and family corruption, blazing incompetence, contempt for the rule of law, betrayal of public institutions, epic dishonesty, authoritarian thuggishness... the list never ends -- that he is damaging public institutions and debasing the Presidency of the United States.
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Second, such thuggishness brings us to another key point of these impeachment hearings: Trump's authoritarian playbook is, in part, Vladimir Putin's authoritarian playbook, and it aims not just at making people believe in alternate truths, but at "eroding our basic ability to distinguish truth at all," as foreign policy consultant Molly McKew warned in 2017.
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You might think that Donald Trump, who lies so much that fact-checkers have a hard time keeping up, who keeps repeating falsehoods even after they've been proved wrong, and who combines all of this with a general level of thuggishness aimed in part at the press, would be too much even for the balance cultists to excuse.
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As Mr. Erdogan steadily gained control over the main news media companies, closing many outlets and forcing owners to sell out to businessmen close to his party, pro-government propaganda replaced independent reporting, especially on TV. Over time, the relentless attacks on opponents and critics in the pro-government news media and on television chat shows, as well as the sheer thuggishness of the presenters, wore thin.
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Allmusic's reviewer laments the song's lack of future front-man Mike Patton, calling Mosley's vocals "brute thuggishness" and "flat", but also says that the song is a "fully realized effort in itself". "We Care a Lot" was also listed in PopMatters' 65 Great Protest Songs, citing it as Faith No More's anti-protest song and as a "smirking account of everything that pop and political culture shoved down our throats at the height of the Reagan revolution".
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After several years of renewed austerity, intensifying political polarisation and parliamentary deadlock, the National Socialists took power in January 1933 and lost little time in transforming the country into a one-party dictatorship. The Hitler government accelerated the cyclical economic recovery already under way, and unemployment finally began to fall rapidly. Antisemitism now became an underlying pillar of government strategy, and those with a Communist past encountered a new level of thuggishness from the security services, but the full horrors of the Nuremberg Laws, the disastrous war and the holocaust still lay on the future, and there were many who were neither left-wing political activists nor Jewish, who welcomed a return to what looked like political stability and economic prosperity. Ina Seidel herself was one of many who quickly demonstrated a robustly patriotic level support for National Socialist ideology, as did her ultra-conservative friend Börries von Münchhausen.
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