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Minority rule isn't really a requirement, i.e. the authoritarian shift in India under the BJP lately is happening with solid and growing majority support. Dictatorships come with control of the media, allowing the ruling regime a massive degree of control over public opinion, it's not uncommon for them to be popular. There is a lot of natural alignment in the compliant because-I-say-so nature of traditionalism, the resistance to change, etc. with acceptance of the existing government as the way things are, but dictatorships don't just depend on maintaining their legitimizing their own rule, they also need to de-legitimize any other alternative as unfit to rule. The easiest way to do that is portray themselves as vanguards of the social order, protecting their noble way of living from the forces of moral turpitude. That's a way easier sell than, say, competent governance when they're usually massively corrupt and self-serving.
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