Authoritarianism is the natural endpoint for the "I'm not really political." crowd.
This train's been rolling since 2002. Before, actually, but it didn't get any significant headway until after the Patriot Act went into effect and our rights and liberties were subverted willingly for the blanket of a nebulous "security".
People don't want to deal with issues, they just want to feel safe. Even now-a-days in the year of our Lord 2022, people still wax nostalgic for Andy Griffith's Mayberry and Leave It To Beaver...ignoring completely that such an era was entirely fictitious and manufactured.
They don't want complex solutions to even more complex problems. They want to be pat on the head, told everything will be alright, and the "adult" - singular - will handle things.