Tyrannophile

In the first book of the Republic, Socrates' claim that justice “pays” is challenged by the hot-tempered Thrasymachus, a rhetorician and tyrannophile.

This was the beginning of a rearguard action on Plato's part to salvage his reputation, which was to culminate in the Seventh and Eighth Epistles, apologiae pro vita sua, from there to blend into the favourable tradition of Plato's life and personality, waging war down to the present against the unfavourable accounts of Plato the tyrannophile and Plato the political idiot.

Some tyrannophiles were Marxists, working on the time-honored principle "He may be an SOB, but he's our SOB."

... (c) that this "somebody" must have been completely out of his mind if he had celebrated the merits of H. and A. among an exclusively tyrannophile demos and (d) that crowds easily change their political allegiance when attractive alternatives present themselves.