Despotism Is The New Normal: Looming Threats To Freedom In 2022 Despotism Is The New Normal: Looming Threats To Freedom In 2022 Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Looking at the present, I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command …