You won't find actual leftists saying things like "we need a strong Republican Party" because *WE* absolutely do fucking not.
However, rich "liberals" who have long since accepted the game is "make fistfuls of money at the expense of regular people" do need a strong GOP because that locks in the fuck barrel regardless of democratic will. They're not hiding this, they tell you so directly.
Nobody needs fascism lite except rich people, and the line for what's "acceptable" is clearly quite fluid.