dictators may have seized power - but not necessarily from might of arms
I was gonna say, "Oh yeah! So gimme an example, Leo!" when the obvious answer of Hitler hit me in the face. But even in a case like that, where someone is elected to office and then usurps power beyond the bounds of that office, isn't might of arms what keeps him in power? How many assassination plots did the SS foil?
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