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[Voltaire2]

29. It diminishes the importance of the Russian scandal

when we frame it in the red baiting terminology of the past.

Putin is not a communist. He is a right wing authoritarian. Russia is not a communist state, it is a right wing authoritarian oligarchy.

We are in peril here, not from some Cold War era communist threat, but from our own corrupt rightwing authoritarian party and its corrupt rightwing authoritarian leader.

The rise of neo fascism as a global political force is very real and very serious. We need to be clear about the nature of the threat.