Mad‑King Rule Makes Technocracy Appealing

When a leader governs through unpredictable, high‑risk personal gambits — e.g., proposing a commercial 'joint venture' with an adversary over a strategic choke point — the chaos and lousy outcomes can create a counterintuitive political effect: nostalgia for dull, expert‑driven technocracy. That shift changes what voters demand from institutions and can reshape contestation over tradeoffs between democratic accountability and administrative competence. — If populist personalization of power reliably makes technocratic governance look preferable, debates about institutional reform, oversight, and who gets to decide foreign‑policy tradeoffs will realign.