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    Commentary: How autocracy takes hold in Trump's America

    by Wayne Sandholtz, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2020 3 minutes

    Donald Trump is a few steps from becoming a new kind of autocrat - an elected one.

    The typical paths to autocracy used to be through revolution or military coup. No longer.

    Today's strongmen - Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Viktor Orban of Hungary, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and others - came to power through elections and then used the institutions of government to subvert democracy and expand their own powers. Trump regularly praises the current batch of autocrats and clearly longs to rule as

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