Tanu says every country is either a full democracy or a full dictatorship — nothing in between

Why

Tanu is sorting all the world's governments into two bins, which is tidy but does not match how governments actually are. Real countries sit all along a range between the two extremes. Some hold elections but limit who can stand, or control the news, so they are partly democratic and partly not. Even a full democracy has parts that are not elected — its courts, its army, its civil servants. Even a harsh government usually has to bend a little to public anger sometimes. Test it: try to place every country you can think of into exactly 'full democracy' or 'full dictatorship' — you will quickly find several that clearly belong somewhere in the middle. Her brother is right: government types are a spectrum, not two boxes — most countries sit somewhere between the extremes, not neatly at one end.