When I started dating my now wife, my now Father In Law got into a massive argument with my wife's uncle because the uncle's a pretty unhinged version of a leftist and was arguing that his ideal form of goverment was that of a benevolent dictatorship. My FIL was flabbergasted that anyone would think that that was a good idea, not just because he's politically opposed to my wife's Uncle's idea of what constitutes benevolence, but that he would think that a strong autocratic leader would fix anything, regardless of their politics.
8 years later, here we are with my Father In Law being so loudly and unrelentingly pro-Trump it has nearly caused permanent rifts in the family, including with my wife, and nearly destroyed his marriage too. He has zero problem with Trump taking as much power as needed to push his policies through. The fucking irony of it, supporting the most blatant autocratic shift in American political history after being furious at the idea from my wife's Uncle, and it's entirely lost on him.