America's culture war is spilling into actual war-war | Thomas Zimmer

"In a much-publicized speech in October 2021, for instance, he attacked "cancel culture" and the west's supposed obsession with trans rights, called the teaching of gender fluidity "on the verge of a crime against humanity", railed against "reverse discrimination against the majority in the interests of minorities", and emphasized his love for traditional "family values"."

"The right's reactions to Russia's attack on Ukraine have ranged from blatant admiration for Putin to anti-Russian saber-rattling combined with a shrill critique of President Joe Biden."

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"Donald Trump initially called the invasion "genius"; he then defended his position at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the weekend, adding that Nato was "not so smart" and "our leaders are dumb.""

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"Similarly, in 2014, famous evangelist Franklin Graham lauded Putin for having "taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda" - an agenda Barack Obama was supposedly pursuing in the US."

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"Trump, in this interpretation, was seen as evidence that any attempt to install multiracial pluralistic democracy would spark a backlash strong enough to defeat the nefarious forces of liberalism - Trump was supposed to stem the tide."

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"Trump and Carlson are not fringe voices, and they aren't outliers either: a last week's CPAC, conservative speakers focused their ire on Joe Biden's supposed weakness as the real cause for Putin's aggression; and they left no doubt who they considered the biggest threat - the "enemy within," as Senator Rick Scott put it, the "militant left-wing in our country.""

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"Trump and Carlson are not fringe voices, and they aren't outliers either: a last week's CPAC, conservative speakers focused their ire on Joe Biden's supposed weakness as the real cause for Putin's aggression; and they left no doubt who they considered the biggest threat - the "enemy within," as Senator Rick Scott put it, the "militant left-wing in our country.""

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"Trump and Carlson are not fringe voices, and they aren't outliers either: a last week's CPAC, conservative speakers focused their ire on Joe Biden's supposed weakness as the real cause for Putin's aggression; and they left no doubt who they considered the biggest threat - the "enemy within," as Senator Rick Scott put it, the "militant left-wing in our country.""

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"Dreher is a leading figure on the religious right; certainly not moderate, but in good standing - and friends - with conservatives like Ross Douthat and David French who are widely respected and admired by liberals."

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"Not to be outdone, Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers emphasized that "I stand with Christians worldwide and not the global bankers who are shoving godlessness and degeneracy in our face"; in case it wasn't entirely clear whose side she was on, she added that Ukrainian president Zelenskiy, who is Jewish, was "a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons"."

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"After the 2016 election, the simmering admiration for Putin morphed into GOP orthodoxy, with Donald Trump himself leading the Republican party's pro-Russia turn."

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"In a way, the escalating obsession with foreign autocrats is a reaction to Trump's failure to make good on that promise."

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"This critique has basically become dogma on the right: a radically "un-American" woke Left is out to destroy the country - and has already succeeded in undermining the nation considerably, especially its "woke, emasculated military," as Texas senator Ted Cruz put it; a weak west foolishly "focused on expanding its national debt and exploding the gender binary", according to rightwing activist Ben Shapiro.nn"

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"It's also why, conversely, right-wing movements across the world have been obsessed with Trump."

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"Meanwhile, America's most successful cable news host Tucker Carlson ridiculed American solidarity with Ukraine, a country he derided as "a tyray," led by "the people who paid off Joe Biden's family.""

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"If not Trump, then who?"

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"Among voters in general, support for Donald Trump correlates strongly with a favorable opinion of Putin, and Americans who define the US as a "Christian nation" have a much more favorable view of Putin's Russia."

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"Donald Trump is the political leader of the Republican party and likely its next presidential candidate."

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"I identify more with Russian, with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.""

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"As recently as January 2022, Putin had a significantly higher approval rating among Republicans than Joe Biden."

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"On the Christian nationalist wing of the Republican party, Lauren Witzke, the Delaware Republican party's candidate for Senate in 2020, proudly declared that she supported Putin because he protects "our Christian values."

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