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AUGUST 17, 2023
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* David Dayen on why smaller government is actually more costly
<[link removed]"Man is created in the image and
likeness of God, but Westerners seek to replace him with all sorts of
transgender people ... Indeed, for a physically and spiritually healthy
person, it's unpleasant and sometimes even scary to arrive in Europe,
given how many different kinds of perversions have bred there."
Sounds just like a MAGA Republican talking about Brooklyn, no? The Putin
coalition, after all-not just thugs on the take, but also those
Russians who find a home in the bigotry of the Russian Orthodox Church
and whose worldview comes filtered by state-run television-is
essentially the same as Trump's once we substitute right-wing
Protestant evangelicalism for Russian Orthodoxy and Fox News for
Putin's neo-Pravda. As Putin's war is killing off many thousands of
his countrymen, of course, his coalition may be shrinking, but how much
that matters in the absence of democratic control is an open question.
That said, both MAGA and MRGA effectively belong to the same
International, though it's not clear if we should call it the
Nationalist International or the Orthodox International or the
Homophobic International or the Misogynistic International or the
Autocratic International or the Blood-and-Soil International or the
Anti-Liberal or Anti-Democratic International. Maybe we should just call
it the Buchanan International, though for all I know, Pat may prefer to
name it after Franco.
~ HAROLD MEYERSON
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