“He will be driven either to participation or else to a public and private admission of his own lack of faith in democracy and man.”

Cut that sentence down: “He will be driven to an admission of his own lack of faith in democracy and man.”

cut some more: “He will be driven to a lack of faith in man.”

Of course he will be –the driver himself is making a lie of ‘faith in man’.

“Do I not prove your faith a lie?” asks the Revolution, “what is faith for, if not to save you from me?”

It’s the question Putin is asking.