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Only if you agree that most people have an inkling of what Machiavelli set out in The Prince vs. his other works. The man spent +10 years advising political leaders before writing The Prince, and his ideas were pretty consistent (at least until his later very impactful Discourses which have a few possible contradictions).
Eseman
The trick in a democracy is correctly to gauge the amount of stupid in the electorate.