The template these autocratic personalities follow is not to abolish elections, but to make them pointless exercises full of blatant corruption, coercion (violent or otherwise), and manipulation.
It's counterproductive to make claims like what you're claiming, because their supporters and people on the fence will turn around and point out how you're wrong in 4 years, or whatever.
There's still elections in Russia, Turkey, etc. And those leaders are very popular.
But they're not democracies. Opposition is not really permitted. Where legal repression isn't in place, mob violence and the like is employed.
That's the template you can expect to see followed.
It's counterproductive to make claims like what you're claiming, because their supporters and people on the fence will turn around and point out how you're wrong in 4 years, or whatever.
There's still elections in Russia, Turkey, etc. And those leaders are very popular.
But they're not democracies. Opposition is not really permitted. Where legal repression isn't in place, mob violence and the like is employed.
That's the template you can expect to see followed.