A Stalinist Forrest Gump …

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[Noel] Field … was more mooncalf than mastermind. So why bother writing a book about him? Well, Marton argues, Field is an exemplar of what happens when somebody falls too hard for an idea, which could just as easily be the Crusades, fascism or radical Islam.

Well, maybe not the Crusades (see Received Rot > James Como), but maybe Progressivism.