Not actually, no, Strongmen tend to ascend to and then retain power by leveraging populist revanchist sentiment amongst the masses, generally against the proverbial "November Criminals" and such who ostensibly "sold them out".Martin Hash wrote: But I always thought a Strongman kept themselves in power by force.
In order to use force, they need a mandate from a populist illiberal democracy to defend it, if that dissipates, then Strongmen are often brought down by their own praetorians in the end.
