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The issue isn't that most Republican voters actively want an authoritarian government. Most don't. It's that they simply don't care about democracy. I find it deeply offensive on a personal level too, but that's what it is. Even on a purely pragmatic level they think that nothing will happen to them under such an authoritarian system, and unless things led to a civil war, they're probably right. Standards of living for the establishment right stayed perfectly fine in Germany and Italy and Chile (and probably did in Spain as well once recovery from the war was over.)