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But the downside to personalist rule is the absence of constraints when those instincts lead him—and us—in the wrong direction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

“Lukashneko is getting old and starts to get sick, and for a personalist regime, it becomes a serious factor for destabilizing the entire system, which begins to shudder and crumble,” Karbalevich said.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2023

Research shows that only 20% of personalist autocracies are replaced by democracies.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Yet everyone involved acted just the way such a personalist leader would have wanted.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2022

This personalist Sociality is, of course, anti-monarchical, and opposed to all privileges of position and birth; it is also "anti-religionist," for it recognises no authorities that are beyond control, except only conformity to nature.

From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Zenker, Ernst Viktor