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I think it adds nuance and improves your ability to recognise it going on when you realise that authoritarianism is a large scale cult, where the leader pretends to not be the object of worship but points to a symbol, and specifies a doctrine that represents being "righteous" in this system.

All the same techniques used in cults will be visible, as will the characteristic behaviours of the various functionaries, and the warning signs that indicate you might be on the wrong side of an up-coming purge will be visible to you if you know how to see the spread of a cult doctrine in your local area.