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What is a kakistocracy?

What is a kakistocracy? Here are some definitions.

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  1. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens. [from 1829.]
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Not bad for a couple of writers huckstering their work, with one writing poetic retellings of ancient myths, and the other ranting and raving at the kakistocracy.
Democracy is fast turning to kakistocracy – government by the least qualified leaders.
This again exposed the force to kakistocracy by making the officers dependent on the favour of the private men.
The Greeks have a word for the emerging Trump Administration: kakistocracy.
One might imagine that Bush and the kakistocracy that enthroned their philosopher-king would be an intolerable offense both to Hitchens's intellect and politics.
Their presence can be taken as the unfailing indicator, the litmus test, as it were, that the system under operation is a kakistocracy.

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