Making sense of the ideology of Suzaku Kururugi

I'm a lot more forgiving of Suzaku then is average for the Code Geass fanbase.  But the fact remains one of the main flaws that plagued R2 was the increasing inconsistency and hypocrisy of this character.

It's not so much that I think any specific decision he made was inherently out of bounds.  It's the way he justifies and explains himself that feels incomprehensible.

I've been re-watching some season 1 episodes, wanting to refresh my memory before giving the new movie it's third viewing.  And in episode 8 Suzaku says something off hand and innocuously that is perhaps a better explanation of his world view then anything he says in the dramatic ideological arguments.

I'm of course going off the Dub here, but he said he trusts "the logic of systems over the emotions of individuals".

If the show had more consistently stressed this as the crux of his ideology instead of wasting so much time moralizing about the ends not justifying the means then he might have been able to come off as much more consistently written.

Suzaku should not be viewed as the "Conservative" of the Code Geass universe, that's more Britannia itself.  He's much more of a Neo-Liberal, someone who would have voted for Biden in this last primary.