“By the end of his life, he had amassed a considerable fortune, but as a dynast he had a serious flaw.”
“He was a dynast in a world system dominated by nation-states, and his appeal to democratic principles was, for that reason, tactical and politically opportunistic.”
“In Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, or Oman, the nation-state evolves in a political environment shaped by the dynast, his family, and their effective concentration of power.”
“But ignoring it leaves a festering anti-democratic dynasticism at the heart of our political system.”
“Bihar has seen feudalism, capitalism, separatism, nepotism, fascism and dynasticism.”
“Instead, she lived her life as if she were going to be running against Jeb Bush, a candidate as burdened by charges of dynasticism and political profiteering as she was.”