This is late to the party, but since I realized it today I want to mention somewhere that George Washington would have qualified as ‘dictatorial’ or ‘illegitimate’ by neoliberal standards. Not only because of his régime’s suppression, but also because he ran for election unopposed and got 100% of the vote twice… I am sure that neoliberals can concoct some clever ad hoc excuse to exempt all this, though.