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"I’d prefer a Bukele to the shit show we have today"
There's a line in the Empire Strikes Back book (not in the movie, though) where Luke ponders whether or not one can use Evil Judiciously then just put it away.
If you are familiar with the concept of Dungeons and Dragons Alignment (see example at link), note that one could sort of "wrap" the diagram around into a ball with Neutral Neutral in the center.
If you can picture that (I'm not explaining well what I see) note that at the extreme edge of, say, Chaotic Good (Han Solo in the linked example), when wrapped around, butts right up against Chaotic Evil. And, if it's like the Secret Passages in the board game Clue, Lawful Good in the upper-left most corner butts up against Chaotic Evil's lower right corner.
That was a terribly long way of saying... the line between "Nobody minds if you bust the skulls of terrible people" and "That guy, right there *stormtrooper points at Pi Guy* is a dissident and needs his skull busted." could be very thin, especially when those busting skulls are absolutely certain that they're the Good Guys.