Loutocracy is a playful or critical coinage meaning roughly “rule by louts.”
• Lout in English means a rude, uncouth, or aggressive person — someone boorish or lacking refinement.
• So loutocracy would literally mean a system governed by boorish, uncivil, or ill-mannered people — a “government” where the loudest, most graceless or aggressive individuals hold the power or influence.
