For instance, I have an aunt who is definitely MAGA, and is flirting with Q-Anon ideas. However, she has pretty good views on the environment and animal rights. For instance, after travelling to Ecuador, she donates to some Ecuadorian land trust run by locals. However, if you start talking to her about the border or gender, she goes full Orbán.
I agree with you that the logic of a state necessitates its survival over any principles it purports to uphold.
And yes, of course Western societies have terrible surveillance apparatuses as well.
Kind of all goes back to the whole ‘being critical of the concept of a state because it always has to maintain its own stability and existence over all other objectives’ thing.