There is even analysis to the effect that during the French Revolution, the aristocracy thought that it simply needed to bring to light the bad that was happening. That is magical thinking. They got their heads chopped off.
Good example of the Bolsheviks. The only Right-wing movements that have ever successfully resisted the Left have not been squeamish about using power. Franco and Pinochet come to mind. We don’t have one of those.
Lets see who had their mistresses paid off to silence them.