Why do some people admire dictators?

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Meanwhile, this is the rhetoric that his supporters buy:

Because they make the trains run on time.

To put it more seriously, totalitarian regimes create the illusion of order and stability, which appeals to some folks. I guess it comes from early childhood, where Daddy is all-powerful and puts everything right. A lot of people still crave for that lost father-figure and think they can find it in a government or a deity.