The appearance and election of so-called ‘strongmen’ as leaders all over the world give rise to reflect on a number of related worldwide phenomena: such as the voice within democracy of people without jobs or in other precarious circumstances, the rise of a worldview in which enemies, painted in black and white, are a necessity, and scholarly knowledge degenerating into a mere opinion. If care ethics is to be a reflection on the practices of care, enabling to live together in a just and fostering way, it is necessary to reflect on these phenomena, to fathom their form and to expose how the concept of caring as a practice is a tool to analyze these phenomena.