[Theodore R.]

Some popular liberal Americans in particularly have long admired Mao if not Stalin. They don’t know any better.

[Olog-hai]

They will know better if they become a victim of it. The useful idiots are often first to go.

Please note once and for all, you Cadet gentlemen, that dictatorship means unlimited power based on force and not on law.

— Lenin, The Question of the Dictatorship, 10/20/1920

That is not the proverbial rabbit hole, but a den of snakes.