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Pretty wild how the Republican party went from calling various actors and others Russia lovers (and destroying their lives over it in the McCarthy hearings) to unabashed testicle chortling of a Russian dictator in just under 70 years.
From an outsider's perspective, US Republicans seem quite anti-American.
From an insider's perspective they seem quite anti-American.
This is also true from an insider's perspective
Don’t sell them short like that. They’re also anti democracy, anti truth, anti justice, anti women, anti diversity and anti human rights.
It's right wing populism. It's the second Lavender Scare. Populism has never worked, it's too chaotic. But that's what regular folks are goaded into by people like Tucker Carlson. He's a multimillionaire being paid to defend billionaires. He is the wealthy owner class he screams about on TV.
Actually, under 32 years. America was anti-Russia all the way up until the USSR coup, and still a few years after.
True, but maybe not as vehement as when Joseph McCarthy went hunting for reds.
Funny thing about that... His right hand man was Roy Cohn who was a big inspiration to... The orange idiot of course. Small world sometimes.
I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember Ronnie Reagan calling the Soviets "the evil empire." Tensions were incredibly high in the early 80s, and the Republicans were super hawkish about it. I was a kid at the time and convinced we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust.
I was there and remember the same. You're saying that was worse than the McCarthy Hearings?
I wasn't saying things were flipped long ago, just an wild flip.
McCarthy hearings? They said Hillary's "reset" of Russia relations in was stupid. Then Putin invaded Ukraine (the first time) and Republicans started slobbing that knob.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset
But that was only in service to Tar and Feather socialism. By misrepresenting it as leninism. As soon as Russia adopted fascism like America. Republicans were overjoyed. Which is why they now defend their fascist friends. And use China or North Korea now to misrepresent socialism.