Indeed, measured against today’s standards, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower were comparatively authoritarian leaders. The West will have to re-adopt such an approach, or risk losing out globally as its ultra-right and ultra-left political forces consolidate their positions and its middle classes begin to dissolve.
事实上，按照当今的衡量标准，查尔斯·戴高乐、温斯顿·丘吉尔和德怀特·艾森豪威尔都属于比较专制的领袖。西方不得不重新采取这样的做法，或者冒险在极右和极左政治势力巩固地位及中产阶级开始消失的过程中丧失全球优势。