No, you read the title correctly.

Let's start with that piece of sh*t, Michael Hayden.

It isn't just Hayden. Consider the Chicago Tribune.

How Republicans went soft on communism
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“Both the CPUSA leaders and the rank and file absorbed Stalin’s ideological hatreds as their own,” wrote the peerless historians Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes. These Communists wore “special glasses that allowed them to see only what Moscow saw and that rendered all else invisible.”

Republicans of 50 or even five years ago would be appalled at how Trump has reshaped American foreign policy. But then, they weren’t wearing special glasses that warped their vision. They were seeing clearly.

So Trump and his fans sound like communists.
Let that sink in.

And guess who wants a new CIA cultural war against communism? The Washington Post.

The CIA funded a culture war against communism. It should do so again.
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Naturally, any efforts by the CIA in such matters should remain quiet; one wouldn’t want to put the artists behind the film in the awkward position of knowingly benefiting from the CIA’s largesse. But a little subterfuge is a small price to pay in service of winning the culture wars.

Now that you are confused, allow me to throw another curveball, and again this one comes from the right.

The report said the Johns Hopkins School of Advance International Studies, a major foreign policy education and analysis institute, has received funding from Tung Chee-hwa, a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the party group that directs the United Front Work Department and includes a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the collective dictatorship that rules China.

The funding for Johns Hopkins came from Tung's non-profit group in Hong Kong, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, which is a registered Chinese agent.

In addition to Johns Hopkins, other think tanks linked to China and influential in American policy circles include the Brookings Institution, Atlantic Council, Center for American Progress, EastWest Institute, Carter Center, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The Exchange Foundation is tied to Chinese government influence operations and uses the same public relations firm as the Chinese embassy.

The Chinese Communist government is funding neoliberal and neocon think tanks in Washington, many of them aligned to the Democrats.

Let's get this straight.
Republicans are saying Trump sounds like a communist, and the Dems hate communists, because the Dems are taking money from the Chinese Communist Party.

And it's only 2018. Just how crazy will it get by 2020?