President Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the U.S. election places him in the company of autocrats and dictators across the globe, many of whom the U.S. has condemned in the past.
Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela — all have used some of the tactics Mr. Trump has employed: claiming voter fraud, undermining confidence in democratic institutions, vilifying opponents and attacking the press. After decades of “preaching democracy to everyone else,” said a cartoonist and political commentator in Kenya, the United States has been exposed as “drinking wine and preaching water.”
The New York Times
