He absolutely did. No one wants the Chilean example here but Pinochet is what happens when progressivism goes unchecked. The pendulum swings back to the right like a ****ing sledgehammer.
The was no middle ground in 1973 Chile. Either submit to Soviet backed Marxism or support a strong man to completely remove it.
Make no mistake, Chile was a battleground of the west vs the spread of communism. Do you think the South Vietnamese and the US played nice with caught Vietcong and NVA. Pinochet wasn't the inventor of "helicopter rides."
It's a shame the so called conservative right doesn't have the same disdain Marxism, maoism or socialism in general as it does Nazism. The only reason I can conclude is that the right loves it's own brand of socialism.