Read up on Ronald Reagan. He did turn things around for a while.
Where exactly did he act like a dictator to overcome overt Marxists and a uniparty oligarchy that performed a velvet coup under our noses in order to ‘turn things around for awhile?
Reagan could never get “elected” in the current culture - hell not even JFK could get elected these days notwithstanding we saw our last ‘honest’ national election in 2008.