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Why are these idiots trying to ape Russia, a dumpster fire, to make America great again?

If there’s anyone to copy it’s China in industry and maybe elements of Western Europe and Japan in some civic areas.

Russia is worse on every metric, even the ones conservatives claim to care about: lower birth rate, high divorce rate, much higher abortion rate, higher domestic violence rate, more drug use, more alcoholism, and much less church attendance.

I. Do. Not. Get. The Russia fetish.



Because they aren’t interested in “making America great again”, that’s the marketing line used to sell it to American voters. They are solely interested in looting the nation for personal gain.


> I. Do. Not. Get. The Russia fetish.

It's not a Russia fetish. It's a Strongman fetish.




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