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I come from autocracy and it's way more similar to the US than one might think.

It all starts with distrust of institutions, (silent) support of majority and power consolidation under executive branch. It's very hard to get out of it, and propaganda and terror just one part of it, and I'm not even sure the first.

Just to be clear I lived in Russia.

Or if you manage to get most people to not care. There can still be dissent, but it would be too limited to have an effect.

That isn't really what happened in Singapore.

Singapore is probably the world's only extant benevolent dictatorship, with two out of four prime ministers being father and son. It remains to be seen how stable it will be in the coming generations.