Exactly. It’s identical in structure, too — nearly interchangeable, in fact, right down to the disinformation circulated by the would-be authoritarians, almost as if it was a coordinated, global far-right power grab. Now, why do we think that might that be?
https://twitter.com/sashachavkin/status/1344700482900668416

All carried out on the same social media platforms too. Same disinfo, same algorithms, same excuses, different countries.
Some of the same people, too. Check out the strategies in this 2018. Imagine how little work it would take to get spineless tech creeps to buy into something like this — they’ve shown us they don’t think we can think for ourselves. They’re wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/05/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-approved-black-ops-to-help-ukraine-president
And who did Manafort have a lobbying firm with for decades? And who was their first major client back then? And who do they all rub elbows with?
(Hint: Roger Stone and all that implies; their first big client was Donald Trump.)
Of course it helps to have highly placed friends at @Facebook too https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1280962467636506625
I had forgotten I wrote this back in February https://www.truthorfiction.com/trump-intervenes-in-sentencing-of-lobbyist-who-spread-corrosive-disinformation-on-his-behalf/