What Trumps Putin Love Reveals About Conservatives

[Different Drummer]

Source: egbertowillies.com (originally on BillMoyers.com)


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Nothing may better certify the chaos into which our world has descended after Donald Trump’s election than the fact that Republicans now seem perfectly content with the Russians having attempted to subvert our democratic process, something that not all that long ago would have sent them into a rage.

This isn’t necessarily because these Republicans think no such interference occurred, despite the proof that it did. It is because they revere what Putin represents more than they revere their own democracy.

You can call this rank hypocrisy. You can attribute it to Trump and his own Putin love and say that Republicans zealously follow their leader. But the truth is far more frightening: conservatives have a deep affinity for authoritarianism and an even deeper distrust of modern Western culture. When it comes down to it, their lament, as captured in surveys, is that America isn’t more like Russia.

I don’t have to tell you how chilling this is or what it portends. It means that many of your fellow Americans subscribe to the philosophy of a ruthless, murderous, lying, kleptocratic, illiberal potentate who runs the largest criminal organization in the history of the world. And if that doesn’t scare you, this will: These same people, although thankfully still a minority, run the country now.

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More at https://egbertowillies.com/2017/07/20/trumps-putin-love-reveals-conservatives/

[onecaliberal]

1. It's not only trump it's a lot of republicans too

[LonePirate]

2. Their reason is far more simplistic than an affinity for what Russia represents.

Russia helped 45 win and defeat the Democrats and liberals. He likes Russia so the rest of the party and their deplorable army like Russia as well. It would not matter what sort of government or economic system existed in Russia. They would feel the same way if Russia was truly parliamentarian or had a representative democracy that functioned like ours did for most of our history.