Or alternatively you don't increase you demagw, instead leveling up in non-combat skills, which in turn scales up your enemies which in turn makes combat harder. (Oblivion, Skyrim)

I just joined out of curiosity and I'm rather baffled by how barely any of the reddit forums decided to migrate here or anywhere else, even if just symbolically.

Except that leaders like Orban or Erdogan have been in power for like a decade already.