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Let’s talk about who’s a threat to “democracy”
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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5400636" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>"The pro-Putin, pro-authoritarian voices in the GOP are not yet a majority—about a quarter of House Republicans and 11 of 50 Senators voted against the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine in May—but they’re not a small minority either, and the wind is at their backs. CPAC has all but canonized Hungary’s strongman Viktor Orban, and in the first hours after Putin rolled into Ukraine, Trump <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923" target="_blank">reveled</a> in the murderer’s “savvy” and “genius.” The 2022 election could bring more authoritarian-friendly Republicans to Congress, and meanwhile, hatcheries of conservative orthodoxy like<em> Fox News</em> and <em>The Federalist</em> are doing the spade work of persuading the base that Kremlin propaganda is more trustworthy—pravda, if you will—than the <em>New York Times</em>."</p><p></p><p>Mona Charen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5400636, member: 54375"] "The pro-Putin, pro-authoritarian voices in the GOP are not yet a majority—about a quarter of House Republicans and 11 of 50 Senators voted against the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine in May—but they’re not a small minority either, and the wind is at their backs. CPAC has all but canonized Hungary’s strongman Viktor Orban, and in the first hours after Putin rolled into Ukraine, Trump [URL='https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923']reveled[/URL] in the murderer’s “savvy” and “genius.” The 2022 election could bring more authoritarian-friendly Republicans to Congress, and meanwhile, hatcheries of conservative orthodoxy like[I] Fox News[/I] and [I]The Federalist[/I] are doing the spade work of persuading the base that Kremlin propaganda is more trustworthy—pravda, if you will—than the [I]New York Times[/I]." Mona Charen [/QUOTE]
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