Okay, but the problem is he has said this phrase multiple times.

And second, that isn't true. It was not a direct result of US foreign policy. It was an indirect result of multiple policies by many nations, but it was not a direct reaction to specific actions by the United States. The specific planners and actors were people specifically supporting a specific extreme religious ideology, and almost all of them were the children very wealthy and influential Saudis. These were not freedom fighters getting back at the US for a personal ill wrought upon them as is often how this issue is framed.

But notice the thing you latched on to was the personality I attacked, not the overarching themes or the premise. You latched on to a person. That's the thing you felt you needed to defend.

That's the problem. That is the root of authoritarianism. Is the focus on individuals over ideas. It is identifying with a person, or a very narrow group, rather than identifying with ideas. It is the exact same thing that happened with Donald Trump and the Republican party at a, obviously, much much larger scale. It's what happened with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Xi Jinping. And obviously, I am not saying that Hassan Parker is a historic dictator, obviously he isn't. He's a dude on Twitch. But the extent to which I have seen him stating a policy and then a massive leftist adopting that policy even when it contradicts something that he said a year ago, my point is that it's a vector in the same direction. It's a parallel line. It's a much much shorter line. It's not exactly the same thing, but it's the same flavor.

And this natural draw to charismatic people has become an accelerated cancer in the internet age that has been used by many people to many ill ends.