[PikachuEXE]

This is exactly the "the idea is so good that it has to be forced" meme

The ruling group think they are enlighten more than everyone else and justified to use force/coercion to apply their will on other people (or just an excuse/scam to abuse power)

[TheOtherHobbes]

That's literally the moral justification for the Thiel/Musk/Yarvin Dark Enlightenment, and the basis of cult dynamics in general.

The idea actually works if, and only if, the ruling group has empathy for the population as a whole. Which - in spite of anti-government propaganda in the US - is at least partially possible.

It's catastrophic when the ruling ethic is narcissism and supremacism.