The other night I turned on the TV and watched an episode of “The Daily Show” featuring a clip of right-wing fishstick darling Tucker Carlson accusing America of buying cheap groceries in communist Russia. I caught the beginning.

Days earlier, Tommy Tuberville, Alabama's senior senator and expert on global policy and trilateral government, launched a Kremlin-worthy defense of Russia and its dictator Vladimir Putin. Among other things, Tuberville said Putin was “doing everything in his power” while criticizing the United States and its NATO allies for planting “missiles from the United States” on Russia's borders. Later, President Putin tweeted that he wanted the war to end, which was also a topic without Russian legitimacy. And he again criticized “warmongers in Washington, D.C.”

Tuberville and Carlson aren't the only ones involved.

In recent years, there has been a shocking and disconcerting trend among many on the right to praise “harsh” dictators, compare Russia more favorably than the United States, and favor Putin.

It's not just Russia and President Putin. Right-wingers have recently been placating dictators around the world, and the more authoritarian the better, it seems. Often, they simultaneously criticize and criticize Americans, especially Democrats or anyone they happen to disagree with that week.

They seem to long for an authoritarianism that allows them to exclude any behavior or people they find unpleasant or a little different.

They now openly embrace Christian nationalism. Lo and behold, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court literally quoted the Bible last week and relied solely on personal religious beliefs to justify his views on frozen embryos.

Well…what the hell is the problem?

I'm sorry, but as a child of the 80's, I find it hard to understand how Americans, especially members of the Reagan party, express admiration and respect for a Russian dictator, a man who brutally massacred his own people, and then criticize Americans in the next breath. I'm looking at it. The comparison to that dictator is beyond shocking.

In fact, it's disgusting.

And that explains a lot about the current divisions in this country. Because while there have always been differences of opinion on specific policies and social issues, what has always united the right and left is their sincere love for this country and the fact that our freedoms and rights make this country the best it can be. This is because I realized that it had become a place of. on earth.

It also includes freedom of religion and freedom from religion. separation of church and state.

Hell, Thomas Jefferson, you might actually kill a judge, let alone a state supreme court justice who dared to use religion to justify a legal decision. The remaining Founders, those who started with a blank page when they decided to make religious freedom their first right, will wonder what they have been reading.

Because it certainly isn't the pocket constitution that right-wing groups were handing out just a few years ago.

No wonder there is a national movement to hide history and force children out of public schools and into indoctrination academies. So I think they're going to start learning that sometimes dictators are apparently okay. If only we could buy cheap bread and kill homosexuals with impunity.

So much for the personal liberties that the right used to harp on. Say what you want about Democrats, but they have never tried to legislate the bedroom or dictate who can or cannot receive personal medical care.

Meanwhile, the alleged party of Lincoln is fighting to racially gerrymander voting maps. The Reagans are in awe of Russia's graffiti-free subways, and even refuse to provide arms to countries Russia has invaded. The Personal Responsibility Party seeks bans on in vitro fertilization, contraception, women's health care, homosexuals, all transgender people, and black history that offends white people by mentioning things they actually did in the past. Oh, and they also want to ban books from public libraries because they can't properly supervise their children.

What happened to you all?

You were once very bold and independent. Most of you just wanted freedom and to be left alone. Honestly, if your social policies weren't so insensitive and inconsiderate, that would be a platform I could support.

But now… now you're scared to death of a cartoon of male genitalia in a library book, and you're scared that a transgender person might make eye contact with you in the bathroom. You fall into so many fear tactics that you are literally running to the safety of a communist dictator.

It's embarrassing. And it threatens the country.

Please together.