11-05-2026, 07:24 PM
Republicans spent decades calling every Democrat a communist.
Universal healthcare? Communist.
Student debt relief? Communist.
Someone saying “maybe don’t ban books”? Full Marxist-Leninist.
Then Russia invaded Ukraine and half the party started doing the most impressive ideological backflip since the Soviet gymnasts.
Suddenly the same people who waved the flag and screamed “freedom” were explaining why Putin is actually a based Christian nationalist defending traditional values against the woke West.
The country that still has Lenin’s corpse on display became the new moral authority for the “anti-communist” right.
They used to treat “commie” like the ultimate insult.
Now a chunk of them treat Moscow like a sister city.
Tucker was over there doing soft-focus interviews.
Certain senators started sounding like they were auditioning for RT.
The same crowd that lost their minds over Obama wearing a tan suit decided Russian state media was just “asking questions.”
The mental gymnastics required are Olympic-level.
“The left are communists who want to destroy America… also the authoritarian petro-state that spent 70 years trying to destroy America is kind of based actually.”
Nothing says “I hate communism” quite like defending the country that still can’t admit the Holodomor happened while complaining about pronouns.
The party of Reagan now has a faction that looks at the Kremlin and sees a vibe check instead of a threat.
History’s most ironic plot twist, and they’re still calling other people the tankies.
Universal healthcare? Communist.
Student debt relief? Communist.
Someone saying “maybe don’t ban books”? Full Marxist-Leninist.
Then Russia invaded Ukraine and half the party started doing the most impressive ideological backflip since the Soviet gymnasts.
Suddenly the same people who waved the flag and screamed “freedom” were explaining why Putin is actually a based Christian nationalist defending traditional values against the woke West.
The country that still has Lenin’s corpse on display became the new moral authority for the “anti-communist” right.
They used to treat “commie” like the ultimate insult.
Now a chunk of them treat Moscow like a sister city.
Tucker was over there doing soft-focus interviews.
Certain senators started sounding like they were auditioning for RT.
The same crowd that lost their minds over Obama wearing a tan suit decided Russian state media was just “asking questions.”
The mental gymnastics required are Olympic-level.
“The left are communists who want to destroy America… also the authoritarian petro-state that spent 70 years trying to destroy America is kind of based actually.”
Nothing says “I hate communism” quite like defending the country that still can’t admit the Holodomor happened while complaining about pronouns.
The party of Reagan now has a faction that looks at the Kremlin and sees a vibe check instead of a threat.
History’s most ironic plot twist, and they’re still calling other people the tankies.