This is bigger than any of us ever imagined.

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111. If "red baiting" is anti democracy,remember Roy Cohn as Trump mentor, Fred Koch $ from Stalin/Hitle

What's really becoming undeniable in these Republican Russia revelations is that their anti Democractic and antidemocracy (no coinicidence they refuse to say "Democratic" Party) strategies, privatization of the commons and totalitarian rule for the oligarchs,
by state propaganda tv, suppression of dissent, .even voting... hatred of "the other" and disempowering women

,ALL have been long held ideals of both the Republican Party and the Kremlin. I do not see any daylight between Putin's ideology & government and the Koch Bros.current Republican Party agenda for America.

The questions are not if but how long and how deep the relationship and dark slushing of the Republican Party by the Russians. And by Republican Party I mean all the PACS, Bullshit Think Tanks, and obscenely bankrolled and powerful lobbies like ALEC, the NRA
and the "Christian"Right. Has anyone every deeply explored where they get their outsized money?

I've never forgotten that Fred Koch's early business was with both Hitler & Stalin. Papa Koch back to the USA & helped found and fund the John Birch Society...all the while being a fanatical "anti communist" And we know Republicans invented the "false flag" strategy, still using it every chance they get. Roy Cohn was Joe McCarthy's lawyer, the most famous Red Baiting hysteric. Gotta remember how Red Scare was conveniently weaponized ag our Democracy through propaganda against Democrats, unions, intellectuals, racial and religious minorities etc.

Seems important history regarding today's Republican Party,its zealot Funders and their President Trump.