The despot was seen surrounded by demonstrators.

Property is the right to use & abuse; it engenders despotism.

All the old despots were demagogues; at least, they were demagogues whenever they were really trying to please or impress the demos. If they poured out beer for their vassals it was because both they and their vassals had a taste for beer. If (in some slightly different mood) they poured melted lead on their vassals, it was because both they and their vassals had a strong distaste for melted lead.

The election of Donald Trump served as a rallying point for those who had long been trying to warn the public about America's slow descent into despotism.

Down with you and your despotic rule!

The slave has his pride; he agrees to obey only the most vigorous despot.

His rule was despotic.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property.

Democracy has, therefore, two excesses to avoid—the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy or monarchy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotic power.

I don't recognize your despotic authority.