Another option is the modern authoritarian model, Competitive Authoritarianism [0] as deployed by Órban, Putin, etc. You castrate the media, and take control o

Another option is the modern authoritarian model, Competitive Authoritarianism [0] as deployed by Órban, Putin, etc. You castrate the media, and take control of major vehicles to tilt the balance in your favour in quasi-sham elections; accumulate power in the executive while keeping the remaining seats of power under the thumb of the branch: legislative gets installed with sycophants/acolytes, judiciary power is tamed/dimished and regime-adjacent judges installed. If you play this well you keep getting elected when elections happen and slowly twists more the sword into all democratic institutions. [0] https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-new-competitive-authoritarianism/ https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-new-competit...