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This is 100% Driven by Americans. See “Freedom Caucus.”
by hockley 9y ago
This is 100% Driven by Americans. See “Freedom Caucus.”
- beager 9y agoIf we're going to entertain the analogy further, Freedom Caucus is an association of funding targets for "VCs" (PACs and super-PACs) in which Russian investors/state agents are possibly LPs (see: reports of Russian money in the NRA). LPs typically don't have such a direct influence on the operations of the investments, although certain actual LP arrangements have in recent years. Of course, the nature of political contributions and influence seems to be vastly more complicated compared to VC.
- ataturk 9y agoI doubt very much any Russian money went to the NRA. It wouldn't make any sense. What good would it do for Russia to pump up the NRA's coffers when a small group of people in the NRA then choose which candidates to support via the ILA? You do understand that the NRA is a huge grassroots organization but that the lobbying arm, the ILA, is a pretty small group of people, right? The membership would find out about any significant pot of money that just showed up from out of nowhere and somebody would scream bloody murder about it--the NRA members, including the board, are patriotic Americans, after all. No, the whole Russia NRA thing is absolute slander of the worst kind. Something the left is very good at lately because there's no way to "prove innocence." They just make wild accusations and leave a mess in their wake because that's how leftists tear apart a country.
- hockley 9y agoThe dismantling of the Fed Gov is decades in the making. While there may be recent foreign influence on the margins, the Kochs, Adelson, Mercer, and the rest of the GOP donor class are the originators of this GOP agenda.
- dqpb 9y agoNothing is ever 100%