Summary
Russian state TV hosts are celebrating Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, claiming they could “dismantle America.”
Figures like Vladimir Solovyov praised the nominees, including Kash Patel for FBI director and Tulsi Gabbard for intelligence, as a “radical dream team” likely to undermine U.S. institutions.
Critics in the U.S. warn that Trump’s selections, including conspiracy theorists and controversial figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth, signal plans to weaken federal agencies.
I take it that by idiocy you mean hypocrisy. Ideology often does that to people. We’re much better at seeing the crimes of our enemies than we are at seeing the crimes of our own ideological group. People can also justify a lot of objectively terrible things in the pursuit of their ideological goals (the ends justify the means). It’s important to note that these phenomena are not unique or exclusive to MLs. These biases exist, to one extent or another, in every ideology.