Posted on 02/21/2019 11:39:32 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
“Collusion,” “contacts,” selective prosecutions, coup plotting, and media taboos recall repressive Soviet practices. Soviet authorities, through the KGB, regularly charged and punished dissidents and other unacceptably independent citizens with linguistic versions of “collusion” and “contacts” with foreigners, particularly Americans. (Having inadvertently been the American in several cases, I can testify that the “contacts” were entirely casual, professional, or otherwise innocent.) Is something similar under way here? As the former prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has pointed out, to make allegations of Trump associates’ “collusion” is to question “everyone who had interacted with Russia in the last quarter-century.” In my case and those of not a few scholarly colleagues, it would mean in the last half-century, or nearly. Nor is this practice merely hypothetical or abstract.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Stalin: “Hey, anybody seen Leon? He was here just a minute ago.”
KGB flunky: “He got axed.”
This ... in the “The Nation”?
"How the DEMOCRATS ARE USING THE Russiagate Investigation to Sovietize American Politics"
That’s who progressives are.
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