Friend,

Think all the way back to 2016. Remember Trump going on national TV and begging Putin to interfere in our elections on his behalf? “Russia, if you’re listening…”

They were listening. They interfered. He won.

They tried again in 2020 and didn’t quite make it.

They’re of course trying again. You know the phrase “useful idiot?” Most often used to describe tools of dictatorial communist regimes who spread their propaganda. 

We need a term for “idiots who took a bunch of Putin’s cash to spread pro-Russian propaganda to MAGA idiots.” We don’t think even the Germans have a word for that, and they generally have words for everything, right?

How about a “Benny Johnson” or a “Tim Pool?”

Yup. Everyone’s least favorite MAGA personalities were raking in cash from a now-exposed Kremlin front. As Stuart pointed out: “How did American conservatism go from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” to the beating heart of pro-Russia propaganda? Russia bought a party. This is just a tiny portion of the story.”

There is way, way more to come on this. Like how Mike Lee was influenced by the aforementioned useful idiots to become one of MAGA”s biggest internet trolls. Who else took Kremlin money? And - because we know that MAGAs love to flip on each other at the first sign of trouble - who’s gonna rat next?

Useful idiots, indeed. But dangerous ones. This is still part of a coordinated attack on our democracy. They are trying to con America into re-electing Trump. Their reward is Ukraine and likely other chunks of Western Europe. And you know Putin won’t stop there.

Next time you hear one of the MAGA chuds braying about something online, ask yourself how much of Putin’s blood money they took. The answer is probably quite a bit.

And if you’re as furious as every red-blooded American patriot should be, perhaps pitch in and help remind swing voters that there’s an alternative out there who’s pro-American families >>

-The Lincoln Project