Assertion: tyrant | /r/CapableOf | strangle democracy
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text: That’s a quite authoritarian tendency and changing the constitution to allow someone to remain in power has been the semi-final step in the methodology of many tyrants who strangled a democracy and took over, from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey to Vladimir Putin of Russia to Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.