Excellent book. Expands beyond the well known child development work of Erickson & Piaget to demonstrate the phases of the development of Evil people, who Peck calls, “The People of the Lie.”
Peck points out that most evil people are lazy, noting that Hitler as an example of a truly evil person who was NOT lazy, since he was driven to accomplish so much evil on such a massive scale.
NYT set the narrative in March:
10 March: NYT: Russia Trying to Stoke U.S. Racial Tensions Before Election, Officials Say
Russian intelligence services are trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups to sow chaos in the United States, American intelligence officials said.
By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman; Matthew Rosenberg contributed reporting from Washington, and Sheera Frenkel from San Francisco.
WASHINGTON — The Russian government has stepped up efforts to inflame racial tensions in the United States as part of its bid to influence November’s presidential election, including trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups and to stoke anger among African-Americans, according to seven American officials briefed on recent intelligence...
“We see Russia is willing to conduct more brazen and disruptive influence operations because of how it perceives its conflict with the West,” David Porter, a top agent on the F.B.I.’s Foreign Influence Task Force, said last month at an election security conference in Washington...
American officials are also examining ties between Russian intelligence and some white supremacist groups, according to an intelligence official...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/russian-interference-race.html
NeverTrumper Rubio advanced the narrative yesterday:
20h ago: NBC: Sen. Marco Rubio says ‘foreign adversaries’ stoking social media furor
by Jane C. Timm
Acting Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., claimed on Saturday night there were social media posts about the protests linked to at least three “foreign adversaries.”...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/george-floyd-death-nationwide-protests-live-updates-n1219376/ncrd1219991
nothing accidental about what is going on. sad.