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Robert Reich

Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson and the Republican party sound so alike?

‘Putin, Trump and Carlson have been promoting much the same narrative – for much the same reason.’
‘Putin, Trump and Carlson have been promoting much the same narrative – for much the same reason.’ Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In a speech delivered last Friday from his office in the Kremlin, Putin criticized the west’s “cancel culture”, which, he charged, is “canceling” Russia – “an entire thousand-year-old country, our people”. It was the third time in recent months Putin has blasted the so-called “cancel culture”.

Which is exactly what Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the Republican party have blasted for several years.

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