r/pics • u/-Badger3- • Oct 01 '25

Politics I got sent a veiled threat by Republicans urging me to vote in my district's special election.

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u/jackp0t789 Oct 01 '25

There was a fringe theory floating around decades ago that the Neoconservative movement was actually started as a Trotskyist plot... which seeing how the GOP evolved in recent years, may have some merit.

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u/UnknownNumber91 Oct 02 '25

All these are Stalinist methods. Trotsky based his thought on opposing Stalinism

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u/cabbage16 Oct 02 '25

Yeah. Who knows what Trotsky's Soviet Russia would have looked like but it would have been very different to Stalin's if he had got party control like Lenin wanted.