Those viewpoints are always there in society and many people just waiting for the leader who will harness to come. It is one of the hard pills to swallow about humanity that authoritarianism is a popular movement brought forward with cheers and votes.
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I think that this viewpoint is only made evident and amplified by the administrations that came before and did not make politics for the common man but a selected few. Then the need for a "saviour" gets overwhelming for the negleted masses. Especially in a state with a such a religious imprint. I would stipulate that the viewpoint is always there as you said but acting on it is a product of bad politics that came before.