"They have the authoritarian bone in their skulls, they thrive under the whip, those despotic asiatic hordes"

"Don't worry sweaty, I hate the government, not the people"

The unpleasant reality is ~~Russians, like the Chinese~~ Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. They are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

After 9 Thermidor II, they never were again.