On Friday morning, Daily Kos founder and publisher Markos Moulitsas faintly — very faintly — praised Republicans for their straightforwardness while damning them for their supposed hostility to political freedom. The post’s headline: “Republicans are totalitarians, and they’re being more honest about it every day.”
“We’ve long known that Republicans have little respect for traditional democratic norms and ideals,” charged Kos. “We’ve seen it in their hostility toward voting rights, their decimation of traditional norms in the House and Senate…their obstruction of the Obama agenda despite being in the deep minority, and their worship of big daddy strongmen (like Putin, even before Putin installed a puppet regime in our White House)…Conservatives used to at least pay lip service to the idea of democracy. Yet the last few weeks have been rough on that facade.”
Kos concluded that Republicans have made “a mockery of our democratic norms and ideals, and the reasons why are obvious. They hate democracy. They love Putin-style autocracy. And it’s up to us to make sure that never happens here, in these United States.”
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