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Trump and the GOP - stooges of Putin (Original Post) jpak Mar 2021 OP
It's tempting to find a single pat villain for them Bucky Mar 2021 #1
Yes, the RePutins would love Putin-style mob rule for America. poli-junkie Mar 2021 #2

Bucky

(53,997 posts)
1. It's tempting to find a single pat villain for them
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 06:28 PM
Mar 2021

The reality is that there's a complex web of powerful economic interests driving Republican corruption, bigotry, malfeasance, and disloyalty. Predatory capitalism, Christian fundamentalism, white supremacy, and the imperatives of mammalian dominance patterns are all collaborating (yet possibly not all conspiring) to drive the American right into the world order envisioned by Vladimir Putin and his mobster/banker cronies.

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