"Elections are seen as important to legitimizing regimes," he said, but instead of imposing one-party rule, as in the past, today's authoritarians "use a variety of devices to control and/or manipulate the media, intimidate opponents" and so on."
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"President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico criticized Trump's plans to build a wall on the border and to bar Muslims from entering the United States. "That's the way Mussolini arrived and the way Hitler arrived," he said. The actor George Clooney called Trump "a xenophobic fascist." Louis C.K., the comic, said, "The guy is Hitler." Eva Schloss, the 87-year-old stepsister of Anne Frank, said Trump "is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism." 
The media is always trying to shape the way or what we think that is why people need to do their own research to find out the facts. The facts often do not support what you think or believe to be true and if you are open to it change your perception.