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TomCADem

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3. The Real Problem Is The Willingness of Republicans to Oblige...

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 17, 2017, 02:18 PM

Dec 2017

...even with Dubya, there was some resistance to being obviously racist let alone repeating and amplifying the propaganda spread by the Kremlin. With modern Republicans, they embrace this propaganda as an unreportable campaign contribution. Let the Russians do the dirty work, dump what they find on wikileaks, then use the material early and often.

Put another way, if Republicans did not embrace Russian propaganda, then it would be confined to the fringe. But, with the rise of Brietbart and Infowars, the fringe is now mainstream.

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