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.

IMO, the issues in western democracies the article mentions are more the result of neoliberalism than a lack of authoritarianism

Inversely, authoritarianism doesn't guarantee a country will prosper like China. Plenty of examples on the contrary

Sidenote, wish I could pay for just one article instead of having to sub