Sentences with phrase «through autocrat»

These old - time political hands, state pensioners in their twilight years now, watched with growing disdain as the son, who cut his political teeth in his early 20s as his father's $ 1 - a-year aide with an all - access backstage pass to state government, rewrote his father's playbook and earned a reputation, they say, as a ram - it - through autocrat with a wide bullying streak.