idiocracy

[id-ee-ah-kruh-see]

noun

1. rule by an idiot or idiots.

2. a country or other domain ruled by an idiot or idiots.

Example Sentences

This may be too much historical shorthand, but one could argue that the extraordinary extensions of presidential powers that Lincoln used to crush the Confederacy marked the beginning of a process that brought us all the way here, to the brink of a neo-Confederate authoritarian idiocracy.

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If I were curating a film festival, I would feature "RoboCop," John Carpenter’s "They Live," "Idiocracy," "Children of Men," and some Terry Gilliam.

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The president in “Idiocracy” was actually trying to help the American people and to do the right and best thing as he understood it.

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Some have described Trump’s reign and the long Trumpocene as a real-life version of the movie “Idiocracy.”

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That principle or state of mind — “l’état, c’est moi,” translated into idiocracy — is perhaps the best way to understand how and why Trump leapfrogs from one vainglorious delusion to the next, with no semblance of continuity or ideological consistency, like an unhappy toddler building wobbly towers of bricks and watching them fall down.

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