Republicans just can't seem to condemn Trump's policy shift toward Putin
Republicans just can't seem to condemn Trump's policy shift toward Putin
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Republicans Just Can't Seem To Condemn Trump's Policy Shift Toward Putin
Summary
Republican lawmakers who have condemned Putin hesitate to criticize Trump’s recent pro-Russia stance.
Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for the war, called President Zelenskyy a “dictator,” and demanded Ukraine surrender rare earth minerals in exchange for U.S. aid.
While some GOP officials reaffirmed support for Ukraine, they avoided directly challenging Trump. Meanwhile, Trump’s administration negotiated a Russia-Ukraine peace deal without initially including Ukraine.
Zelenskyy rejected Trump’s minerals demand, warning of dangerous precedents.
Blows my mind, having grown up in the age of Reagan Republicans, to see how Republicans act today, vs then. Its so weird.
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IMO.... Reagan republicans would have behaved like this if they could have gotten away with it.
They've been working on getting to this point for a very, very long time.
No. Hard-disagree with that. For the Republican party members in Congress at least. Those who voted for them, some not, some so.
The greatest generation types would not stand for how the country is currently being used, and they spilled blood on foreign sands to earn that right of judgement.
I gotta believe that Nixon has got to be doing cartwheels in his coffin right now (he might of actually been cremated/urned, but you know what I mean), seeing what Trump/MAGA gets away with, when he was just trying to ease-drop on some opponents and used the FBI to do so.
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Having once been one (well I was under voting age at the time), it's so confusing to me. Fortunately I'm considerably older and wiser now, but it's wild to see. Russia had replaced Nazis as the predominant bad guy of the zeitgeist. Now both are seen favorably by the right.
I feel like the brain worm problem is far more prevalent than just RFK. Is this just a subtle alien invasion? I'm not actually given to such conspiratorial thinking but if it were true, it would explain a lot.
Poor education, religion and unchecked propaganda. American problems that have been ignored for decades.
Some are seriously thinking it is the prevalent lead in the water and the result of many years of lead exposure in gasoline.
right wing ideologies are right wing ideologies. of course they are viewed favourably.
Well, if you take them at face value, then the things they said were important to them back in the Reagan era were just lies, since today's MAGA-Republicans don't follow anything like them now.
But even having said that, supporting a Russian dictator invading another country and NOT supporting NATO, that's such a un-Republican thing to do that its hard to believe they can even act that way.
Half-kidding, but I'm thinking that there are lots of photos of political people doing compromising things being held over their heads.
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'The Russians aren't communist anymore, see they are just oligarch capitalists, like we aspire to be'
-republicans
As somebody who was barely sentient when Clinton was in office and grew up under Bush Jr., I've seen the writing on the wall since I was old enough to understand the concept of sexuality.
I can't say I expected blatant Nazism and a fascist coup back then, but I remember when we had to make up a brand new word that meant "I'm a straight man who also happens to wash their hair and like dressing well" because that was enough to make people assume you were gay. And if people thought you were gay, it could cost you your career.
The slide started under Reagan but truly accelerated when Nixon showed the Republicans that big government could be good for them, too. My entire life, the two guiding principles of conservative philosophy have been hatred and control. American society has always had issues with deeply rooted bigotry.