Comrade Jones put it nicely into a metaphor

Lauding them for their “progressive” policy ideas (that don’t go anywhere) is picking corn kernels out of a pile of shit and presenting them as gold. They are not comrades. They are tools of the capitalists through and through.

You’re right, during this important moment they are sinisterly conflating all the sins of the apparatus towards singular individuals, they’re trying to pull the same “denazification” trick the Nazis did in Europe after the war to give itself a friendlier makeover. I mentioned it somewhere else, but truly I think I’ve just been getting in my own head, so thank you for also slapping some sense into me <3

Every word you said was true, thanks again <3