When the priorities of an electorate aren't borne out by the priorities of a "strong government" they elect, it's not because their wildly skewed electoral systems are failing, but rather because they're working exactly as designed. Why give voters actual democracy when the mere feel of one will do?
I mean, I hate to sound trite and talk about kayfabe but...there's a coherent reason these people are always projecting about left wingers' "faux outrage"