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 Guardian UK: Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson and the Republican party sound so alike? By Robert Reich - Putin’s lies, and the lies coming from America’s extreme right, are mutually supporting. There’s a reason for that

Reduced to basics, today’s oligarchs and strongmen (along with their mouthpieces and lackeys) are trying to justify their wealth and power by attacking liberal values that have shaped the west, beginning with the enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries – the values of tolerance, openness, democracy, self-government, equal rights, and the rule of law. These values are incompatible with a society of oligarchs and strongmen.