Authoritarian
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An organization or state which enforces strong or oppressive measures against its population. One who prefers, or one who enforces, absolute obedience to an authority. A totalitarian.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority. Characterised by a tyrannical obedience to an authority; dictatorial. Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one was an authority.
Example sentence: If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
Autocratic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.Of or pertaining to the manner of an autocrat.
Example sentence: Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is.