Franco left behind a functioning country that he was able to hand off, no matter how charitable you want be to Hitler, Franco was *objectively* better at it.

But when you start hearing the sing-song about how Hitler was so good, the world attacked him, he woulda made Germany great if only he coulda.... You realize that you're talking to somebody who is entrained into the process of getting the L, and then justifying it to themselves.

You know what they say, there's two kinds of people in the world, there's the winner and there's the other guy...