Autocrats prioritize self-preservation and frequently reshuffle their governments to maintain power and ensure loyalty from incompetent, dependent subordinates.

“Because they're threatened of people who are too competent, and they don't want people who have independent sources of power, independent networks. And so, they did this from the very start where Tulsi Gabbard was put in there in a director of national intelligence with very few contacts in the inte”

Digital technologies and unregulated social media act as powerful tools that help authoritarian regimes maintain control and destabilize democracies.

“in so many ways these digital technologies and and unregulated social media is the best friend of authoritarians both to maintain their populations and to destabilize democracies and interfere with elections.”