Putin v. Cheney March 21, 2024March 20, 2024 Putin will be doing all he can — again — to elect Trump. Liz Cheney will be doing all she can to stop him. She disagrees with Biden on tons but believes all that really matters this November is preserving democracy. She’s right. According to the Wall Street Journal’s former editor-in-chief: America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933 To be clear, I don’t think . . . America is walking into a replay of 1933 . . . [but] we can see in contemporary extremists of both left and right echoes of the tactics the Nazis deployed—especially the way in which they mobilize language. A long thoughtful piece. He works pretty hard to call out the left as well as the right, this being the Journal; but stops short of asserting moral equivalency. It’s hard, after all, to equate . . . “Folks, we are the United States of America! And there is nothing beyond our capacity — nothing! — if we do it together” . . . . . . with the rhetoric of carnage, grievance, vermin, and retribution. Or maybe it’s Hungary that the Republican Party, now officially a Trump family affair, hopes to emulate. Heather Cox Ricardson here reports on Victor Orban’s recent visit. To Mar-A-Lago, of course, but also to the Heritage Foundation: . . . The tight cooperation between Heritage and Orbán illuminates Project 2025, the plan Heritage has led, along with dozens of other right-wing organizations, to map out a future right-wing presidency. In Hungary, Orbán has undermined democracy, gutting the civil service and filling it with loyalists; attacking immigrants, women, and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals; taking over businesses for friends and family, and moving the country away from the rules-based international order . . . Nothing would please Putin more — or Cheney less.