- Joined
- Jan 2, 2017
They do. Have you read the fiction this set produces? Not just Tom Clancy, but all the middle-of-the-pack milifics, sci-fi milifics, and alt-history milifics. One of the most popular plots is the "revolutionary fantasy". In this story, the United States government (or analogue) is either overthrown or subverted, either by fundamentalist Muslims (or analogue), radical Leftists (or analogue), or China/Russia/North Korea/The United Nations (or analogues). These powers instantly seize control of massive sections of the country and institute a dystopian system born from the fever dreams of A&N's dedicated posters, leaving only a small group of "true patriots" to fight back against the government, often adopting the tactics of terrorist groups to do so, up to and including terror bombings and the like. Any civilian deaths are portrayed as either a tragic sacrifice in the name of a greater good (in more sane and nuanced works), or a heroic involuntary sacrifice for the cause by the victims worth celebrating (in the most unhinged). While there are plenty of novels where captured enemies are treated well to prove the moral high-ground of the revolutionaries, there are just as many where said revolutionaries have a take-no-prisoners policy or enact clear political revenge fantasies of the author on their captives. Should the revolutionaries seize control of part or all of America again, they will often install a militaristic stratocracy instead of a "pure" democracy, and usually will castigate leftist ideologies the author dislikes, if not enact prior political revenge fantasies en masse. Generally, they endorse the "hard times, strong men, good times, weak men" cyclical theory of history and flirt with many of the hard-right's favorite criticisms of democracy.You'd almost think that they WANT Biden to be a dictator.
These people consume these sorts of novels when they deign to read, often, and thus have the revolutionary fantasy (which you can see in film, as well: Red Dawn is an archetypal example of this, although softened) firmly entrenched in their minds. This narrative, which frames them as underdogs with the moral right to victory, but more importantly the moral right to use whatever force they desire to punish those responsible for "destroying" the country, runs through the entirety of the Stop the Steal conspiracy theory.
TL;DR these people do want Biden to be a dictator because it will validate themselves as the "good guys" and give moral sanction to their own violence and fantasies of retribution.