How tyrants deal with opposition

For context, a reference point

“You’re up there, you’ve got half the room going totally crazy — wild, they loved everything, they want to do something great for our country. And you have the other side — even on positive news, really positive news like that — they were like death. And un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not! I mean they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.” -- Our scumbag Republican ex-president calling Democrats treasonous and un-American because they did not applaud when he said things they did not like or agree with, including his lies, in his misstatement of the union address to congress. Also note the blatant logic flaw that Republican propaganda uses to further divide society: → If you don't applaud to the scumbag's lies and sleaze, you don't love your country.

“And I know a lot of people were very disappointed, but they knew the real answer. You know, when the Democrats go behind the scenes and they go into a room backstage and they sit and they talk, they laugh because they know it's all a big scam, a big hoax [referring to Russian interference in the 2016 election]. And it's called politics, but this is dirty politics and this is actually treason." "And I know a lot of people were very disappointed, but they knew the real answer. You know, when the Democrats go behind the scenes and they go into a room backstage and they sit and they talk, they laugh because they know it's all a big scam, a big hoax. And it's called politics, but this is dirty politics and this is actually treason.” -- Our scumbag Republican ex-president calling Democrats traitors for playing dirty politics, which is standard Republican politician practice, without one shred of evidence of actual treason.  

“The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!” -- Our scumbag Republican ex-president calling some Republicans in congress human scum because they allegedly opposed him.

What the tyrant Putin is doing

The New York Times writes: 

President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday referred to pro-Western Russians as “scum and traitors” who needed to be removed from society, describing the war in Ukraine as part of an existential clash with the United States and setting the stage for an ever fiercer crackdown at home and even more aggression abroad.

Comparing the West to Nazi Germany, the Russian leader laced his speech with derision for the “political beau monde” in Europe and the United States, and for the “slave-like” Russians who supported it. It was a far more hard-line message than one delivered earlier in the day by Mr. Putin’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, who said that Russia saw “a certain hope that a compromise can be reached” with Ukraine to end the war.

“The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths,” Mr. Putin said. “I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges.”

The beginnings of a new crackdown quickly emerged.

Self-purification of society as executed by Putin and his thugs. That is creepy. Scary for the people to be purified, presumably by force.

But come to think of it, that is sort of what American Christian nationalists want to do to American society by force of law. And, a form of self-purification (ideological cleansing) is what the Republican Party has already done to itself via years of RINO hunts, leading to inbred social mental defects.[1] And, that is also what major online pro-Republican politics sites have done in the form of blocking inconvenient facts and dissenting opinions and arguments.

Question: Notice any similarity between Putin and the ex-president and the Republican Party? 

Footnote: 

1. For example:

See, the famous scientist Walker points out that since the apes 

are still here, evolution is a Democratic Party hoax 

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