"Outrage over Russian Hacking Claims is Laughable"

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27. Not as many as you apparently think

The party's heyday was in the 1920s and 1930s when they were warning about and standing up to Hitler and his domestic apologists like Prescott Bush. Once people found out where Stalin and later Krushchev were really at, they quietly drifted away and hoped like hell they weren't rich and famous enough to be targeted by the HUAC.

That has persisted as leftists with the brain cells it takes to be a leftist recognized that the "Communism" in Russia was largely a totalitarian, right wing phenomenon, the party having taken the places of the Czar and his aristocrats, the people still powerless.

Now they're well aware that the country is still controlled by old communists who grabbed all they could during the transition to whatever it is now.

Everything is antithetical to the American left over there. Maybe there are college kids who romanticize the early revolutionary period. There are also college kids who take Rand seriously. They'll all grow out of it.