'...but in his mind, the blame does not lie with the perpetrators...'
And that's the key. The inability to identify who the true enemy really is.
"He would, no doubt, have made a good 'Bolshevik' himself."
Is exactly what he is looking foward to. He dreams of a socialist state.
And in parting at the door, the last thing he said, was he can't wait to read Bill Clinton's book. He had pre-paid on Amazon. It promises to be a great book, he said...as he walked into the night...
Your friend has a lost soul.
Soon to be further blighted, it would seem.