Belief in communism (which is just the magical end state of socialism, remember) is stronger than most religious faiths. No failure discourages the useful idiots.
Useful idiots are a determined bunch:
While ruthless in their practice of massive violence against civilian populations, Mao and his henchmen succeeded in duping Western sympathizers into viewing them as liberal democrats and reformers, much as Stalin persuaded influential Americans in the 1930s that Communists were just "liberals in a hurry."
When the crash of expectations arrives and denying failure becomes too much even for them to maintain, the refrain of "It wasn't real socialism!" erupts. Thus begins the new search for the Great Red Hope that will be embraced. Until failure requires another cycle.
Blather, wince, repeat.
Useful idiots never learn. And cause America repeated foreign policy problems to win the same argument again and again against a new generation of true believers with no sense of history.
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