These types of politicians are endearing, not because their voters expect significant changes in the substantive aspects of their lives, but because their main function is to punish the establishment.
In autocratic, authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, where power is assumed as a staged representation, information loses its character as a public good and becomes an exercise in communicative manipulation.
Generalizing their characteristics only generates analytical biases that do not contribute to scientific explanation to the question: Why are people opting for authoritarian leaders?
