History is replete with autocrats who bestowed paternalistic titles on themselves, or encouraged their use. For his seventieth birthday Joseph Stalin’s terrified sycophants decreed him “Father of Nations” for his establishment of “people’s democracies.” Haitian president François Duvalier cultivated the moniker “Papa Doc.” And, of course, there’s the fraternalistic obsequies from Orwell’s 1984, where the…

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