Yes he is a POS but I meant more broadly when I read comments or even articles or watch some of the youtube pro trump channels. It's even worse in Europe, where many of the right wingers idolize Putin.
Well... there are definitely similarities... probably a lot of overlap as well... and yes.. I see their stupid posts all the time. After the terrorist attack in Paris...about half of the youtube 'comments' were conspiracies about how the CIA secretly planned the attack. That doesn't represent what the average American thinks... that represents this tiny group of lunatic binge posters. I even see their posts on Jewish and Israeli sites.
The percentage of American's that supported Ron Paul is actually tiny... around 1 -2%... they're generally unemployed tin-foil hat wearing idiots... and spend most of their day trolling on message boards, posting conspiracies, and taking part in nonsense online polls. But again.. they are a tiny percentage... we always see this when we look at the 'actual' election results.
During the last election... the Russians, and the tinfoil-hat Paulistinians were actively posting on both Bernie Sanders and Trump message boards.... because they were both seen as anti-establishment. This was pointed out in the Mueller 'investigation'... the bot distribution was equal.
But in the end... Russia didn't spend a penny on sending people to 'pro-Trump' rallies. They paid kids to attend anti-Trump rallies. Not because they supported Hillary... but because it was always about trying to destabilize and mock our democracy.
I'm no fan of Trump's stupid statements early on about 'getting along' with Putin... but if anything... Trump is turning out to be Putin's worst nightmare. I'm sure Putin would much prefer another term of Obama. And the fact that the R. Paul supporters are too stupid to figure this out doesn't surprise me. They are about as dumb as the members of the Nation of Islam.