What democratically elected ruler/party was really really bad? (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

Think of the worst you can and please don’t say Biden or Trump, there’s no way they’re the worst of all time

I think the Nazis were pretty terrible personally

 

[Yerichu]

Can we say Khmer Rouge and Kim Jong Un

 

[Ahsoka]

Can we say Khmer Rouge and Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong Un was democratically elected? I thought he became rules because his father who was the ruler died

 

[Yerichu]

Kim Jong Un was democratically elected? I thought he became rules because his father who was the ruler died

Oh my bad..I think since you mention Nazi's, now other bad leaders also come to mind... such as Nicaragua and Venezuela

 

[DaisySkies]

Hitler

 

[RandAlThor]

Hitler or Mussolini seems like a safe call.

 

[noctis]

Hitler

 

[Horizonshard]

How about Putin dodging the term limits of the Russian presidency?

 

[Ahsoka]

How about Putin dodging the term limits of the Russian presidency?

Definitely really bad, but he hasn’t started massive nation wide concentration camps. The bar for being beyond horrible is high And ngl the giving himself more time to be president gives me gerrymandering vibes, different scales but similarities. So it’s less out there than some of the Nazi stuff.

 

[catonkatonk]

Sometimes you get really bad leaders and then eventually they're overthrown or whatever, and then the country pretends that leader never existed and course-corrects.


Other times you get leaders that permanently change the direction of a country such that even long after they're gone, their impact is still felt.
That one's Margaret Thatcher.

 

[LoveYooShaSha]

Stalin, Mussolini n maybe Franco if he was democratically elected(?)

 

[Yelena_Belova]

Is it bad that I laughed just a little bit at the struck out part in the OP? I think of you hadn't wrote that, a good chunk of the answers would be one of those two.

 

[Ahsoka]

Stalin, Mussolini n maybe Franco if he was democratically elected(?)

Was Stalin democratically elected? Im not that familiar with his rise to power but I thought it was through political trickery, though I guess they can be the same.

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Xing Xi Ping

 

[Ahsoka]

Is it bad that I laughed just a little bit at the struck out part in the OP? I think of you hadn't wrote that, a good chunk of the answers would be one of those two.

Probably Recency bias is real

 

[dark_tranquility]

The Thai royals with the lese majesty law

 

[Ahsoka]

The Thai royals with the lese majesty law

They were democratically elected?

 

[dark_tranquility]

They were democratically elected?

The king has more power than the PM if you mean that?

 

[dark_tranquility]

The Prime Minister will be elected by both houses till Next 5 years), then officially appointed by the King. The prime minister, head of the executive branch, is also the leader of the Cabinet of Thailand. The prime minister retains the prerogative to appoint or remove any minister

@Ahsoka

 

[Ahsoka]

The Prime Minister will be elected by both houses till Next 5 years), then officially appointed by the King. The prime minister, head of the executive branch, is also the leader of the Cabinet of Thailand. The prime minister retains the prerogative to appoint or remove any minister

@Ahsoka

Right but the royals weren’t democratically elected right? It was the people under them?