The Tea Party Comes to Moscow.
Putin enthusiasts and the Republican Partys libertarian fringe make for strange but oddly appropriate bedfellows.
JANUARY 6, 2015, 1:51 PM
'A year ago, well before U.S.-Russia relations began their precipitous unraveling, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan set right-wing circles in the United States abuzz by suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is one of us a paleoconservative defender of traditional Christian values and a foe to homosexual marriage, pornography, promiscuity, and the whole panoply of Hollywood values personified by Barack Obamas America.
Even while opposing Moscows subsequent annexation of Crimea and its strong-arm tactics in eastern Ukraine, prominent far-right voices from Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to many at Fox News gleefully lauded Putins strength and decisiveness as hallmarks of a real leader.* Other pundits, meanwhile, pontificate over what this apparent paradox says about the Tea Party, the libertarian movement that has arguably consumed the Republican agenda.
But no one has considered what the comparison says about Putins Russia. Both Tea Party America and Putins Russia share patriotic and ultraconservative Christian worldviews, which each fears is under threat from liberal forces both at home and abroad.Both Tea Party America and Putins Russia share patriotic and ultraconservative Christian worldviews, which each fears is under threat from liberal forces both at home and abroad. This fear even among a passionate, educated, and politically savvy population is reinforced by partisan media outlets that fundamentally recast history to confirm rather than challenge preconceptions and that spin outlandish conspiracy theories in the process.'>>>
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/06/tea-party-putin-moscow-ukraine/
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)but he would fight to make sure America doesnt get it.
JI7
(89,172 posts)in the way of sanctions and other laws at least Trump will can destroy the us and other countries as much as possible.
Midnight Writer
(21,546 posts)as a paradise where white men are still on top.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)I bet after living there, theyd become champions for diversity. Only oligarchs are on top in russia. Much of the country lives in poverty. Alcoholism among (white) men is a big problem, not from haply life.
LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)So Russia is the tea party, isnt it?