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Catalan surrealist painter, Dalí was expelled from the surrealist group over his ambiguous sympathies for fascism, publicly backed Franco and the monarchy and, from 1949 on, embraced a Catholic nuclear mysticism fusing faith and science.
Political axes
Salvador Dalí leans further toward autocracy than 82% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Salvador Dalí stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Salvador Dalí sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Right-wing current that combines free markets, free trade, and limited government with strong national identity, cultural assimilation, traditional and religious values, and a robust military.
Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
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CommunalismAnarchist20%
President of Peru (1990–2000), Fujimori defeated the Shining Path insurgency and curbed hyperinflation through neoliberal shock therapy, but shut down Congress in the 1992 self-coup and was convicted of crimes against humanity and corruption.
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A federation of Gulf monarchies, the United Arab Emirates combines power concentrated in the royal families, a liberal economy diversified beyond oil, and strong bets on technology, tourism, and global finance.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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