House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out the problem in his party.
…In an interview with Puck News’s Julia Ioffe, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.
“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it — and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television] — on our airwaves,” McCaul said.
I like how the idea of national/regional provinces — of longstanding tradition and often used in the past as a club by conservatives to get folks to stay out of *their* business — is now dismissed as “geographic exclusivity.” Nice.