The second important difference is that dictators usually rule in the name of the people, deriving legitimacy from an abstracted will of the people. They are demotist.
What practical difference does that make with a strong, tyrannical dictator? Whatever the official theory, the people can’t depose him and choose a different ruler.
What practical difference does that make with a strong, tyrannical dictator? Whatever the official theory, the people can’t depose him and choose a different ruler.
The difference it makes is with non-strong dictators.