Coalition governments are potential first stages of Caesarism, not bulwarks against it

Evidence

Every coalition government is a first stage of Caesarism, which either may or may not develop to more significant stages (the common opinion of course is that coalition governments, on the contrary, are the most “solid bulwark” against Caesarism). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 855

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the common assumption that coalition politics prevents authoritarian concentration; connects to how modern technocratic compromise governments can legitimize emergency powers.