Thom Yorke posts about “tin pot dictators” as the US counts votes

Thom Yorke posted on Twitter on 4 November, with a few states still to declare in the American presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

i don’t want my kids inheriting a world run by flag waving facebook tin pot dictators, utterly bereft of moral authority

Thom Yorke¹

He goes on to picture his children watching 200-mile winds blow their lives away like the Wizard of Oz. Clash, which reproduced the post, reads it as aimed at Trump; Yorke names no one.