Is this surprising? He's a right wing guy - he doesn't like "the odious and utopian fantasies" of socialism, and his read of Stalin (and how Stalinism worked) i

Is this surprising? He's a right wing guy - he doesn't like "the odious and utopian fantasies" of socialism, and his read of Stalin (and how Stalinism worked) is pretty standard. It's actually a common understanding of what went so horribly wrong in the USSR: the party formed a sort of parallel administrative structure that basically undermined and supplanted all the actual laws and institutions of state.