Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, made a great point the other day on air MSNBC that there is no economic upside to autocracy-these companies kid themselves thinking it's a good investment to "both sides" - the autocrat will extract what he wants and then take what's left-there is no real "economy". Authoritarianism does not always need to take power, it is given freely by those who believe that by giving something they will get something, but in the end authoritarianism gives nothing. Rough paraphrase. Highly recommend Tim Snyder-terrifying to see how far down the path to fascism we really are