Powerline by Lloyd Billingsley 7/19/2024
As Victor Davis Hanson notes, “our Soviet Union” features our own Brezhnev in Joe Biden and our own Pravda in the establishment media that praises the Delaware dullard as “sharp as a tack.” Our Soviet Union also features Stalinist show-trials, imprisonment without trial, government control of media, deep state agencies deployed against the people, and our very own communist party.
Long before the Russia hoax, the Soviet Union interfered with American elections by running their own candidates of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the USSR. The CPUSA candidate in 1924, 1928 and 1932 was William Z. Foster, author of Toward Soviet America: The Crises and Decline of Capitalism and the Impending Rise of Socialism in the United States. That classic was first published in 1932, when Stalin was planning his career in mass murder. The Soviets also supported proxies in the Progressive Party such as Henry Wallace (1948) and Vincent Hallinan (1952), but during the 1960s they returned to the CPUSA.
The CPUSA ticket in 1968 was Charlene Mitchell and Mark Zagarell. In 1972, the CPUSA offered the Stalinist Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner. That Communist duo ran again in 1976, when future CIA boss John Brennan voted for Hall. In 1980, the CPUSA paired Hall with Angela Davis, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize. As in 1980, Reagan and Bush crushed them. From 1988 on, as Marxists.org helpfully explains, voters were “urged to support the Democratic Party,” which now bears the hallmarks of the CPUSA.
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