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Putin supporters in the west tend to be anti-vaxers and also self-identify as small government libertarians. So at face value, it's ironic they would idolise an authoritarian 'strong-man' type

Probably same reason ultra religious pro-family conservatives often get caught engaging in homosexual trysts. Or redneck racists love interracial black on blonde porn. These people frame their entire worldview around a bipolar dialectic and veer between those two extremes