The idiots deifying him would never live in the communist totalitarian system in a million years.
I would argue that what we’ve seen in western countries since about 1990 is a very gradual voluntary communist revolution on the Chinese model without the economic dislocations of the early days of the Soviet Union.
This makes it either palatable or irrelevant to large parts of the population. The only place one notices the drift to communism is in areas like identity politics, free speech and various aspects of political correctness.
Trump says he is opposed to much of this but I have to wonder how sharp edged his counter revolutionary political stance will appear after a year or two in office. It very much depends on who is advising and how things go with the first round of inevitable confrontations with the revolutionary forces still in place.
In Canada we had the opposite experience. We had a declared anti-communist government that slowly lost its interest and its edge on that issue, and more or less gave up the fight against identity politics, trying instead to re-brand it under slightly less objectionable conditions. This slowly split the conservative movement into loyalists and disenchanted dissidents (sound familiar?) and so that government fell to Justin Trudeau, who is not so much a communist sympathizer as an under-educated product of his father’s regime (his father on the other hand was widely regarded by many conservatives as a KGB agent).
Justin rather vacuously raved about Fidel not so much from an ideological point of view but because Fidel was a family friend (no doubt he had a lot in common with Justin’s dad and maybe also his mother). This has touched off a minor firestorm of criticism in Canada, but at the same time, it is fairly easy to find openly laudatory commentary on the internet (in Canada) about Fidel Castro. Like many other things, there is a polarized response to this more or less dividing the population up here 50-50, most Conservatives and some Liberals are aghast by Trudeau’s initial lack of comprehension of who and what Fidel was, while the other half take the view that any enemy of the west is a friend of theirs.
As is often the case, I just holler “get me out of here” when this sort of thing happens, but there’s nothing that one can do, this country will always be like this (and I suspect so will yours, although maybe the percentages are not quite the same).