Don't forget who else openly consorted with Putin and Michael Flynn:

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15. I have several friends like this.

Good friends, one of them a friend of many decades.
They are more or less traditional lefties - so no surprise (although disappointment on my part) that they were Stein supporters in November. But what was initially surprising for me is that both seem to use RT as their primary news source, and defend Putin to the hilt, which I find completely bizarre, especially since they are strict pacifists. How can their pacifism sit with their defense of Putin's behavior in Syria and Ukraine, and his murder of journalists and political opponents at home?

And then to have a far right contingent of Trump voters, with the same Putin-loving-RT-reading axis.
this is less surprising to me because Putin and Trump are so similar in my mind.

And I've seen before how the political spectrum can bend, so that far-right and far-left ends meet each other. This seems to be one of those times.

Very strange times.