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Especially when a good bunch of hardline MAGA were alive during the Red Scare where communism and Soviet Union / Russia was bad.

Now they're best buddies exchanging tips on how to oppress minorities. Wtf?

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It's actually pretty consistent - they knew back then that the entire Red Scare was a complete bullshit, used only for oppression of dissidents - and now they are just using new methods for the same goal.

The (high-level) politicians yes.

I was more referring to the regular folks who saw communism and soviets as the big bogeymen everywhere.

Now they're admiring Putin and saying how everything is amazing in Russia because there are no LGBT people in there.

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