How Trump supporters, a lot them I know hard-line McCarthyists, don't see the takeover of the US by Russia is fucking beyond me. But then again, it was never about Russia, it was always about authoritarianism.
Oh theres another point. The earth is dying, and not just for the poor. The biggest cause of climate change are the systems required to support 8 billion people. Why do you see a push for AI slaves at the same time as a push for WW3. When zuck has his art, food, entertainment and all taken care of why does he need poor people killing his planet?
On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.
1984, George Orwell
In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.
Fox News talking positively about Russia for 5 to 10 years will do wonders. These people never did a deep analysis, they were told Russia bad and now they're told Russia good.
McCarthy was in fact backed in 1946 in the Republican primary against progressive Robert M. La Follette Jr. by the Wisconsin Communist Party because they felt that La Follette would be more effective in opposing communism.
You can see it in their leaked chat group. They hate hate hate hate democracy. They love dictators and monarchies, nothing negative at all to day about those guys.
Donald Trump, facing financial trouble after failed casinos and business ventures, gets invited by the Soviet government to collaborate 1987
Trump had taken major losses with his casino's in Atlantic city and other failed companies. So he was in desperate need of a different finance source. And this was around the time that russian oligarchies were looking to diversify their money given the growing instability of the country and you had Donald Trump needing that cash.
In the following years, Trump sold roughly one third of his properties to individuals or companies affiliated with Russia.