I hope everyone understands what it means for every immigrant, every Jew, and everyone with roots in countries outside of Western Europe if Republicans get away with smearing a purple heart winner because his family are Soviet emigres. https://t.co/MSztk9NS6w

— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) October 29, 2019

it’s amazing that just shy of 3 full years in, we’ve had a near total inversion of who our leadership considers our international allies. The maladministration truly wants us to believe that Ukraine is the real enemy now, and Russia and Putin have always been on our side and our true friends.

It’s fucking sickening, but the right-wing alt-right universe persists and the political press continues to entertain it as just as valid , if not more true than actual reality.