Sentence examples for authoritarian base from inspiring English sources

They've been reduced to little more than appeasing to their authoritarian base.

Instead, their overriding goal is to appeal to what they understand to be the biases and prejudices of their evermore authoritarian base.

Again, the issue is not simply the danger of Donald Trump as a leader, but the authoritarian base which he has "activated" (a term used by Karen Stenner in her 2005 work The Authoritarian Dynamic).

Authoritarians care less about cheating on government than other violations of traditional social norms….His most recent set of comments are unlikely to play well with a prudish authoritarian base that is more willing to damn violations of traditional sexual norms than cheating on taxes….

On a host of issues, including the "war on women," Medicare, "class warfare" and more, the GOP's response to Democratic has been to say, in the words of Talking Points Memo's Benjy Sarlin, "I know you are, but what am I?" Time and again, Republicans have adopted policies that -- while appealing to their evermore extreme and authoritarian base -- are very unpopular with Americans more broadly.

One might discount this view, finding it paternalistic (or worse, authoritarian) based on the argument that the principle of beneficence should not override research subjects' autonomy.

The commission must follow a transparent process, tossing out the old, authoritarian document based on Ataturk nationalism and starting fresh.

Authoritarian regimes based on parties and elections often build stronger and better-performing states because their institutions allow elites to strike bargains and pursue shared goals.

Though he was careful to follow constitutional forms, Suharto's government was basically an authoritarian regime based on the power of the military, which insinuated itself deeply into every branch of the government and the economy.

Engelbert Dollfuss, (born October 4, 1892, Texing, Austro-Hungarian Empire died July 25 , 1934 Vienna, Austria), Austrian statesman and, from 1932 to 1934, chancellor of Austria who destroyed the Austrian Republic and established an authoritarian regime based on conservative Roman Catholic and Italian Fascist principles.

But with their vast and often uncontested reach and influence over populations beyond urban centers, which as a rule have less access to independent sources of information, state television is the medium that shapes the views of audiences that typically represent the authoritarians' core base of support.