Trump's skills are subverting the political game, appealing to the base elements of his country and playing divide & conquer w/allies & enemies.
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You apply that strategy to a country with a fractured electorate, a failing economy, a corrupt political system & weak institutions, it often wins.
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A huge part of why Trump blindsided so many, especially Americans, is that they wouldn't consider the US to be any of those things.
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Meanwhile France almost elected a Nazi, Poland is ripe for this stuff, Hungary is already there...
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... the Czech Republic just elected their own Trumpesque figure, Eastern Europe entire is flirting with it, Austria, Belgium, even Germany are one recession away from it...
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... the UK has no need for it (it's already fucked), Spain is already there, the rest of the Mediterranean to follow.
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By design, neoliberalism provides every precondition I listed except a failing economy (that's contingent on debt, creditors & growth)...
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... but considering it deregulates fiscal systems and impoverishes states, you're always one recession away from a crashed economy.
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Crashed economy coincides with elections, you're rolling the dice to see if you end up with autocracy or more of the same shit.
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If you end up with more of the same, it precipitates future autocracy as the same mistakes are repeated.
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Add enough autocracies to a region, someone will declare war, or a civil war will lead to escalation a la Balkans.