So, the "better dead than red" crowd supports Putin loving Trump!?!?

[Siwsan]

Who, on the planet, shouted that louder than conservatives? It is a puzzlement.

[Foggyhill]

1. Pretty much, irony plays a game with us all

[jberryhill]

2. It's a head-scratcher for sure

I can't figure it out.

They want the US to be friendlier with the former head of the KGB.

[Siwsan]

4. Love that video!

I was fortunate enough to see Yul Brynner perform in 'The King and I', on stage in Philadelphia.

[renegade000]

3. Well Putin is basically using Rove's playbook now...

What with the dubious wars and the anti-gay legislation.

[former9thward]

5. Whatever Putin is he is not a "red".

He is not a Communist by any means. I think the Russian Communist Party would attest to that.

[Hekate]

6. That was their parents, and the current crop failed high school History....

...and neither knows nor cares.

Take me, for instance. I was barely born when Joe McCarthy was terrifying people, and now I'm a grandma. I grew up under the shadow of the Bomb, but again, I was a little kid then a teen.

It was my parents' generation, the WW II generation, that got caught up in the Red Scare. They sent my generation off to fight the Reds.

People who've lived through enough of this history and remember it, or who have taken history classes and remember, are probably getting the same sick sense of deja vu that I am. Take Putin...he ran the freaking KGB. At what point after the fall of the USSR was this man washed clean of that in the public eye? So much so that Dubya could look into his eyes and say mistily that he had seen Vlad's soul?

Now these people, Trump's Troglodytes, are completely amnesiac of all but their personal grievances.

I can't even.

[Siwsan]

7. I think the Trump's Troglodytes (love that!) are a bunch of retro-thinkers

Racist, sexist, the "ist" list is endless. There's not a whole lot of intellectual evolution going on, in that bunch.

[David__77]

8. I consider Putin a conservative.

I don't consider him a communist. I think he deploys pro-Soviet concepts because doing so is consistent with his idea of patriotism. Besides all that, left/right concepts are overemphasized, in my opinion.

[Siwsan]

9. I think you are being way too over-intellectual - try to think like a Trumper.