> This is really the modern autocrat's secret weapon Hardly: Mussolini also had some sort of elections. It just happened that parliamentarians who were too muc

> This is really the modern autocrat's secret weapon Hardly: Mussolini also had some sort of elections. It just happened that parliamentarians who were too much of a nuisance had unfortunate encounters with groups of hard batons, or were required to live on remote islands. In Putin's Russia they fall from balconies.