Stalin seemed a bit indiscriminate about his, “off with their heads” murder schemes. Do you think he became drunk with power in the usual way? He got worse after being in office.

“Bad people are the problem.” What to do with that pesky human nature! This is often the dispute I have with lefty friends. Is human nature basically good, or is human nature basically bad and/or prone to failure regarding his fellow man?

I think these days they still answer that humans are basically good (therefore “prison doesn’t work,” etc….) but in the case of assassinations and BLM looting, the “Evil Orange Man made them do it.”

That’s when we must remind that humans are responsible for their own actions and blame cannot be shifted to someone else.