Autocratic Embrace

Narendra Modi's an autocrat. He's also an ethnonationalist whose religious fervor at times strays perilously close to psychopathy. That's really (really) inconvenient, which is why you don't hear Western politicians say it very often. Not even when they're accusing the Indian government of assassinating dissidents on foreign soil. India's still a democracy, and Modi was humbled at the polls this year, but make no mistake: If it were up to him, the country would operate under one-party rule and