Especially when a good bunch of hardline MAGA were alive during the Red Scare where communism and Soviet Union / Russia was bad.

Now they're best buddies exchanging tips on how to oppress minorities. Wtf?

It's actually pretty consistent - they knew back then that the entire Red Scare was a complete bullshit, used only for oppression of dissidents - and now they are just using new methods for the same goal.