☭"Seeing Red" Edition

“In the 1920s and ’30s, some U.S. lefties thought Stalin was just the bee’s knees; their fellow Americans called them ‘Commie dupes’ and Lenin called them ‘useful idiots.’ Now it’s the Republicans who think this century’s Stalin is just the cat’s pajamas, and right wingers are the full-bore Commie dupes, with no hint of irony or self-awareness. What has…