Trump, Putin, Xi

And yet he's made it to 73.

excluding the fact that he's the most populist candidate in a while among an establishment of republicans and democrats that disguise themselves as 1-party state.

https://reason.com/2019/07/14/the-terrifying-rise-of-authoritarian-populism/

oh yeah, reason. good choice of sources: a propaganda outlet paid by the koch brothers and the oil industry with one of their missions to halt high-speed rail projects

My point is that authoritarian populism is well known.