![]() Then they acquiesce to what they protested against. Their response to the proposals of the extreme right has three parts. This leaves the BSers - the Bait and Switchers who campaign on their independence from right-wing dictates only to obey them if elected. But these are not as morally deficient as the total repression of freedom, mass murder of their own citizens, and brutal subjugation of smaller countries that characterized Soviet rule. The MAGA faction’s indifference to people in economic distress, their tolerance of intolerance, and their refusal to respect the rules of democracy are grievous, profound errors. But applying that term here makes the Mike Johnson/Matt Gaetz/Marjorie Taylor Greene/Jim Jordan-led extremists the Bolsheviks, which, in a conclusion to which I rarely come, is unfair to them. The strategic weakness, tactical ineptitude, and greater inclination to conciliation of the non-right-wing Republicans do conjure up the Mensheviks. But the latter prevailed, empowered by their superior discipline, organizational skills, and zeal. In the struggle for control of the Revolution in 1917 the more democratically inclined Mensheviks may have outnumbered the Bolsheviks, whose governance choice was dictatorship. The absence of an authority empowered to first make and then rescind the threat as soon as it has served its purpose explains why, in intra-Republican disputes, it is always carried out. While the parallels here are strong, in the end the argument for renaming the faux moderates the Real Mothers is flawed.
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