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For example: The politician will face his reckoning on election day.

If you want to know if a politician has authoritarian aspirations, see how they talk about the press.

Idealistic educators and politicians tried to change the system but their efforts were blocked by those in charge who did everything possible to keep things as they were.

Do we know he believed that, or is this a pragmatic politician understanding the lay of the land?

So it's become this political thing that politicians know people care about.

Among bureaucrats, generals and politicians one has little difficulty in finding clear examples of basically stupid individuals, whose damaging capacity was alarmingly enhanced by the position of the power they occupied.

In the aftermath of Katrina politicians, bureaucrats and educators saw an opportunity to finally bring change upon a system that had previously failed so many kids in such a miserable way.

In the 20th century, one of the biggest risks to declining democracies were coups, that somebody would come from outside, often military officials, and replace the democratically elected politician.