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The term useful idiot, for a foolish person whose views can be taken advantage of for political purposes, was used in a British periodical as early as 1864. [3] In relation to the Cold War, the term appeared in a June 1948 New York Times article on contemporary Italian politics ("Communist shift is seen in Europe"), [1] citing the Italian Democratic Socialist Party's newspaper L'Umanità []. [4]
The former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former congresswoman Liz Cheney described Carlson as a "useful idiot"; a phrase that is frequently erroneously attributed to Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union.
This article is not about public image of Lenin, therefore all what is not about "useful idiot" is WP:COATRACK and does not belong to this article. - Altenmann >talk 01:37, 9 August 2024 (UTC) Oh no, the citation (as appears in this diff ) is about the "useful idiot", hence on the subject of this page, not a coatrack. Should the expression be ...
Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.
“In essence, many of the Jan. 6 participants have said that they were useful idiots,” said NBC News legal analyst Joyce Vance, a former top federal prosecutor. “Trump literally cannot do ...
Useful idiot is a term attributed to Lenin, principally in Soviet use, for a person overtly supporting the interests of one country (e.g., the USSR) in another (e.g., a member of the overt Communist Party of the second country). Soviet intelligence practice was to avoid such people in the actual clandestine operations, regarding them at most ...
The code of Hammurabi and the term "idiot". The reason why this is mentioned is because the actual Lenin quote does not contain the word "idiot", so a reader might rightfully ask himself in what way is that quote related to the term "useful idiot". The disclaimer regarding unverified, dubious content.
“Useful idiots,” is a pejorative political term, used by more than just the former Soviet Union. In Tillis’ context, it refers to Russia sympathizers who helped spread Soviet propaganda.