Looks like what the country actually wants is authoritarianism, so maybe he was just the right politician in the wrong country.
He ran on a "change" platform but failed to deliver change. He propped up the rich and shot down any sort of possible ideas that would meaningfully change anything despite being given once in a generation mandate.
It dissolutioned a lot of voters, and lead to where we are now where people are desperate enough to want a strongman outsider who promises to really shake things up.
If we had gotten an actual progressive instead of a textbook neoliberal things might have been different.