@GhostOnTheHalfShell

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"I will contest the assertion that he’s on any kind of road to hell paved with good intentions at all."

Oh, such conceited people on a mission mostly have convinced *themselves* that they"re doing "the best for the country."
One extreme example: Mao.
So, yes, they often *start out* having "good intentions.

As the British politician #LordActon noted:

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men, even...