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The argument is nuanced, and Mr. Simon does not deny that there is "the potential for authoritarian overreach," but he comes down fairly clearly on the side of those who called for the N.S.A. to harness modern information technology more aggressively than it did before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
He was among a delegation that had met with Mr. Assad three weeks ago to discuss potential reforms in authoritarian Syria.
His arrest has become a cause célèbre among those who view the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, as an authoritarian leader keen to stifle potential opponents.
In advertisements on television, radio and the Internet, they asserted that Mr. López Obrador was a potential left-wing authoritarian who would destroy the economy.
Even though interest groups are indispensable to the operation of government in both democracies and authoritarian systems, they have the potential to promote the interests of a small segment of society at the expense of society as a whole.
Polsky, in his study of the Beats, had dismissed the theory, endorsed by some social critics in the nineteen-fifties, that disaffected dropouts are potential recruits for authoritarian political movements.
At any rate, health and safety considerations, including the deaths of five British prostitutes in Ipswich, in 2006, and of three more sex workers in Bradford, in 2010, have not shaken the conviction of, for example, the Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, that Mactaggart's proposals represent an "authoritarian, moralistic and un-evidenced potential catastrophe".
Indeed, some see him as a modern Huey Long, a potential demagogue with authoritarian tendencies.
Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman, is by any reasonable definition an authoritarian, a fascist and a potential dictator.
