Top Republicans: GOP "infected" by Russian propaganda
Two top Republicans, US House intelligence committee chair Mike Turner and Foreign Affairs committee chair Michael McCaul, have said that Russian propaganda has “infected” their party. They said that their colleagues are repeating Kremlin messaging on the Capitol floor. I react to this news, and explain how these lies have gone unchecked, and why it is a threat to American democracy:
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“Infected” implies Republicans are passive victims of a contagion. On the contrary, Republican are traitors who embraced Russian propaganda for self serving purposes, to preserve white supremacy and win elections… thus holding on to political power as a minority Party.
Rachel Maddow's book "Prequel" told the story about Republican congressmen who were "infected" by German Nazi propaganda in the 1930s and early 1940s and used their franking privileges to spread this propaganda throughout the United States. I think that the number of Republican congress people (women as well as men) who are "infected by Russian Putin propaganda" is greater than the number of congressional Nazi defenders in the 1930s and early 1940s.