Edit: I didn't post the following quotes to say he's a communist. He's pivoting to centre-left positions with his rhetoric and 6 year plan. He called for reducing poverty by 2% in 6 years and for progressive taxation on the rich.
The true elite are all those serving Russia. Workers and soldiers, reliable, trustable, who have proven their devotion to Russia, the worthy people.
“The very word ‘elite’ has largely been discredited by those who, having no merit to society, consider themselves to be some kind of a caste with special rights and privileges. I specifically mean those who, in previous years, filled their pockets through all sorts of processes in the economy of the 1990s. Those are definitely not the elite,” the president said.
I was gonna say, I have no reason to take American conservatives at their word when they say they just want to “protect the children” and their counterparts abroad don’t seem much different in that regard.
Say that ground gets ceded to them — do they stop there? No, no they don’t. They just move the goalposts and try to ratchet down on us harder. If you can’t get your real goal immediately, nudge slowly until you can go in for the kill. That’s not even a gay rights thing, that’s just how political movements in general operate.