Everyone outside the imperial core is subjected to the American/European outside observer, the least you can do is return the favor.
Maybe it'll stop some people from going "China bad this. China bad that" when they haven't read a single letter from someone who lives there.
in a vacuum blaming him is fine, but oftentimes blaming him is a way people can intentionally ignore making any substantial criticism of american "democracy" and our political system. it also implies that under a democrat things would have been fine (they would have been less bad.... maybe, but not good)