I guess I'll never understand.

That's the part that really depresses me. I'm a person that likes to challenge myself mentally. I like to try to understand things. But there's too much I see that I really don't understand and don't feel I ever will.

One of the things I've studied, all my life, is Soviet society. I was a child of the cold war and made it a point to try to understand this country that seemed so different to me.

I've told people this, and they don't believe me until I've shown them examples, is that the phraseology I see from many republicans has been basically cut and pasted from old soviet propaganda. It's eerie. 

Trump talked about opponents being scum, for example. Straight out of Soviet propaganda from the 30's -50s. 

I guess we'll see, but the slip is showing for many on the right in the US. One person just said that maybe we DO need a dictator. Now the cat is out of the bag.