It doesn&#x27;t jump straight to that. The intermediate steps usually involve one or more of:<p>1) A political ideology (Nazism, Communism, Islamism)<p>2) A real external threat (Communism, Capitalism, Islamism)<p>3) Sanctions or economic depression (Weimar Germany, Russia today)<p>The real external threat is essentially a sociopolitical system that propagates itself inside the turf of another sociopolitical system. This leads to far-right war hawks, and then center-right, issuing xenophobic statements. The step before &quot;supporting supreme leaders&quot; is usually &quot;suppressing enemy ideologies&quot;. Like McCarthyism in USA or anti Muslim sentiment today. Or Iran&#x27;s hatred of the USA and the Shah prior to their revolution. Or Soviet hatred of capitalist bourgeouis. Or Ukraine&#x27;s hatred of communists. And so forth and so on.<p>Once &quot;the enemy&quot; is identified, the crackdown begins, which leads to more clamps on civil liberties. Then you might want to read the poem attributed to Martin Niemoller:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;First_they_came_.." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;First_they_came_..</a>.