But if you consider it two levels up, the "trade" is indeed "absolute autocratic rule," so in that, it's accurate.
No it’s not accurate, because he has delegated authority to these third-rate ideologues, some of whom I wouldn’t trust to collect my trash, let alone run part of my country. A self-respecting czar wouldn’t do that. If you want to argue that he thinks HE is the czar, I would agree with that analysis. Sort of like those pathetic “scholars” who claim their ancestors were the Egyptian pharaohs. My most recent diagnosis of BO is, in fact, megalomania.