Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Authoritarianism: Understanding the Threats to Democracy

The cultish part of authoritarianism starts with the cult of the leader, and there are situations where you don't have one overwhelmingly important leader, like in some of the military juntas or governing councils in the cold war, Latin America, for example, like in Brazil, to give an example, because Bolsonaro, unfortunately he comes from the military and he's always praising the dictatorship right.