Authoritarians need to project an appearance of peerless strength, intelligence, and infallibility. The people who fanatically believe their policies will directly lead to what was promised aren’t doing it on the basis of those policies, but instead on the trust of the confident strongman who made them.
Authoritarians need to project an appearance of peerless strength, intelligence, and infallibility. The people who fanatically believe their policies will directly lead to what was promised aren’t doing it on the basis of those policies, but instead on the trust of the confident strongman who made them.