Last night’s (4/19/2024) “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” included an interview with Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale on the subject of Russian propaganda being amplified by China before being spread as “information” in the US Congress by various members of the extreme right wing of the GOP. The segment included video of Prof. Snyder testifying before the House Oversight Committee on the subject.
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I cannot tell whether the Members of Congress who perform this misinformation function are witting tools of the Russian misinformation campaign or if they are simply useful idiots, but what is clear is that these right wing extremists are a danger to our country and to democracy in general. We know who they are, but without concerted effort on the part of concerned citizens to remove them from their positions, these Putin tools will continue to interfere with the functioning of the US government.