This is now a full blown Constitutional crisis and needs to go to the SCOTUS

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38. Could be. McCarthy said there were 200 commies in the State Dept.

Obviously I don't think there were 200 commies in the state dept during the McCarthy era. I"m trying to make a point.

Putin is a bad guy. Really bad. A major threat to Eastern Europe, which makes him a threat to Western Europe. He regards the US as a friend of his enemies.

But when the right wing was running around fueling hysteria that the Commies were coming to get us, when McCarthy was finding Russkie sympathizers under every bed, a bunch of folks correctly recognized that the right-wing's reaction was over the top.

Well, I'm not going to stand in the shoes of the right wing of the past and go all hysterical about Russian being an existential threat to the US. They're a significant threat to some of our allies, just as they were back in the day. They need to be pushed back against. But I'm not losing my shit worrying about doomsday scenarios now, just as the smarter folks didn't lose their shit worrying about them back in the day.