People within a dictatorship who reject democratic reforms are?

B. However, "hardliner" describes anyone who is not willing to compromise, and in our elected leaders who know how to equate morality to the law, we do not want them to be anything OTHER THAN a hardliner. President Reagan was a hardliner, when he fired the air traffic controllers because their union activities were against Federal law; when he told Gorbachev "Tear down this wall!"; and when he choose to build the so-called Stars Wars defense plan because it was defensive, not offensive.