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joshtpm.bsky.social • 7 days ago

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American Republicans are ideologically much more like people in Russia or Turkey than they are like members of European right-wing parties, and this only happened in the last 25 years.

www.ft.com/content/3046...

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beckya.bsky.social•7 days ago

Fox News effect

bettypf.bsky.social•7 days ago

When did Newt come along?

alexandercrummell.bsky.social•7 days ago

1995

tonigo.bsky.social•7 days ago

Along with Fox News

birdman100.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nuanced point:

russians are actually much hotter (men and women), Dress nicer and are much more sophisticated culturally
And generally more fun and affable.

beihai.bsky.social•7 days ago

Obama sent so many white people over the edge, white boomers are, in the majority, trash. I am a white boomer and I am daily appalled at how ignorant they are of the most basic things. I hired a local plumber in PA and it was like Cletus from Arkansas showed up. he knows plumbing but that's it

john-alton.bsky.social•7 days ago

15 years ago my conservative Aussie friends would accuse each other of being American conservatives, and they would all deny it.

helitzur.bsky.social•7 days ago

The chart showing changes over time claims that pretty much all of that erosion in the US right-wing happened entirely within GW Bush's first term, which seems...not terribly accurate to me?

wisemet.bsky.social•7 days ago

Combination of FOX, Limbaugh and increasing numbers of contractors/private business in gov’t. Think Blackwater and Halliburton. The seeds were being sown for all the grift during the Iraq war.

transportist.net•7 days ago

I guess it depends on how you define the right, and whether you distinguish the GOP and neocons from the then unelected right.

robertwakulat.bsky.social•7 days ago

Is this what Newt wanted back in the 90s?

alexandercrummell.bsky.social•7 days ago

Probably not that far off.

homermke.bsky.social•7 days ago

The connection is they're all servile.

justicelicsw.bsky.social•7 days ago

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erbhedgehog.bsky.social•7 days ago

They are ideologically aligned with the Taliban and ISIS

vagabondjohn.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is what happens with 30+ years of constant, unchecked fascist propaganda being fed to us constantly. Where's Rush Limbaugh buried again? I need to piss.

hobosforhoover.bsky.social•7 days ago

that is not good

willvandenberg.bsky.social•7 days ago

Big win for Putin’s mis- and disinformation strategies. Big loss for humanity, whether in the US or globally.

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