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SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Craters to 33% in New AP Poll, Whopping 67% Disapprove
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Generally speaking, authoritarians want the support of at least a plurality of the citizenship. Even in well established authoritarian regimes, widespread public discontent will lead to regime collapse, even if it's a military coup that just leads to another authoritarian regime.
Nah. Pretty sure Joe Stalin wasn't upset about public opinion.
I don't know what Stalin thought, but I do know that he was able to rule for so long because he was broadly popular throughout the Soviet Union. Also, Victor Orbàn clearly cared about public opinion, as did Ferdinand Marcos, Hosni Mubarak, and Alexander Lukashenko, to name a few.
You can't control a country where the vast majority of people hate you. Even if the military remains loyal to you (and they won't), if the majority of people are out in the streets protesting you instead of going to work, your economy will implode, and gunning everyone down won't help. You need your opposition to be small enough that they seem like a trouble-making minority, while you remain popular enough that most people either support your violent suppression of dissent or at least don't hate you enough to stick their own necks out.