Authoritarian leaders are constantly searching for scapegoats, working to rile up the fears of their populace, and trying to tighten their grips. To them, the coronavirus pandemic is a bonanza—the liberal democracies that would typically call them out for their violence and repression with the necessities of stopping the virus in their home countries.
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Melinda Haring, Doug Klain: Why autocrats love coronavirus
This photo taken on March 17, 2020 shows laboratory technicians working on testing samples from people to be tested for the coronavirus at a laboratory in Changzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province.
