Why the attraction to a US dictatorship

A young right-wing American, a supporter of the wrecker, told Robert Reich, "Think of Putin, Xi, Kim, Ali Khamenei, Netanyahu — they’re all odious thugs," he said. "We need our own odious thug to stand up to them."

That thinking has a blatant flaw. The other "odious thugs" (his words) he listed, aside from Netanyahu, made their own peoples the first and principal target of their oppression, though they hurt some minorities worse. I think the wrecker would be similar. An American would need to be very lucky to benefit from being under the wrecker's heel.