Ai czar, border czar, health czar…
I see it mentioned all the time in the US media but also elsewhere recently, where does this come from?
Czar is historicly the title of Russian rulers. Which these people clearly aren’t, so why the use of this term?
Is it some sort of right wing dogwistle?
I can’t say why people are using czar specifically but people have been called the “lord of X” or “Y king” practically forever without being literal kings or lords. It’s just an emphatic way to say they’re seen as powerful within a given space, it’s not a claim that they’re literally a Russian ruler.