Geopolitics

This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose

Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.

Disagree. It isn’t a one way road. That’s a flawed perspective. Culture, ideas, genetics, are ever-changing. Diversity is the blossoming of innovation. I associate more with Rousseau’s perspective of malleability.

Hobbes took inspiration from much earlier, Han Fei. The Chinese legalist philosopher.