Comment by ncr100

> [voters want STRONG MAN] which has been growing increasingly powerful for my adult lifetime.

Political scientist Robert D Putnam suggests that this is in part due to the culture fragmenting and isolating.

Watch 10m video https://youtu.be/5cVSR8MSJvw?si=5NxRUnYENhfzTbXe easy interview with him from recently on that. Interesting.