Donald Trump’s ‘kakistocracy’ is not the first, but it’s revived an old word

"Rarely does an ancient Greek portmanteau word spark a Twitterstorm. But that’s what happened when the former director of the CIA John Brennan took to Twitter and accused Donald Trump of running a “kakistocracy”. This tweet sparked a 13,700% increase in people looking up the word using the online version of the Merriam Webster dictionary. These curious souls would have found a terse definition: “Government by the worst people.”

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Donald Trump’s ‘kakistocracy’ is not the first, but it’s revived an old word | André Spicer | Opinion | The Guardian