Many folks are secretly - or not-so-secretly-hoping for an American Putin.
Unfortunately one is required as many in America have proven themselves incapable of self government. On both (yea right...both...there is one) side of the aisle.
Putin is not the proper descriptive because he is Russian and therefore comes with baggage
More correctly the descriptive should be charismatic.
A more proper example would be Teddy Roosevelt who was active to the point of seeming to be ADD in today speak. Of course Teddy is not a good example because nobody knows who he is or what he accomplished.
Wanting a Putin here is scary and stupid. Conservatives rooting for a far more dominant government than we already have is utterly bizarre.
Trump is not Putin, for better and worse.
A 30 something from Russia is my IT guy. He told me that Putin loves his country and Obama only cares about himself.
I’ll take Trump who loves his country over Hillary for whom this is the ultimate career move....and frankly some of the Republicans fit in that category also.
We could sure do worse; hell, we have done worse.
Or a white Obama.