Republicans crib from Putin's playbook--today's LA Times Op Ed.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

By Kurt Bardella



The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States: one that’s white, Christian and fundamentally opposed to Western ideals of pluralism.

These goals certainly aren’t new. Since President Ronald Reagan tethered the Republican Party to the Christian right, the objectives have been obvious and the barriers to realizing them have slowly eroded. We’re currently standing at a precipice where the GOP, fully consumed by Trumpism, is closer than ever to codifying this vision.

And ironically, while Republicans have sought to alarm voters with ludicrous fears of Democrats wanting to enact “communism,” the America they want is much closer to that of Soviet and Putin’s Russia. In fact, the actions conservatives are embracing and what’s happening in Russia are so similar that comparisons cannot be considered hyperbole.

In both the USSR and modern Russia, homophobia is rampant and LGBTQ people are brutally punished for their existence. A common slur for gay men in Russian is the same word as that for “pedophile,” and Russian President Vladimir Putin has perpetuated the vile trope that gay people abuse children.

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All of it at the link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-28/republican-party-adopts-russia-authoritarian-playbook

[NCjack]

1. Republicans should just move to Russia. They could be so much more

unhappier there than here.

[abqtommy]

2. There's no way to reason with or change any Fascist Cultists anywhere in the world.

We must destroy them politically and financially.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Let's buy them all a Russian phrasebook

and a one way ticket to Siberia. Good riddance.

[world wide wally]

4. Biden shouled initiate a program to raise money to send Putin supporters to Russia

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. Which is why the acronym GOP should be erased from our vocabulary. Unless the definition

is updated to Groping Oligarchs for Putin. Or anything else that approaches accuracy.