Eric Levitz

Yeah, well, the American right responded as it responds to most things that Donald Trump does very positively. In fact, I think it wasn't just the fact that Trump personally did this, but that substantively on the MAGA right, on the nationalist American right, there's a real appetite to see the United States stand up to Ukraine and Zelensky and project the kind of line that Trump did. So

Yeah, well, the American right responded as it responds to most things that Donald Trump does very positively. In fact, I think it wasn't just the fact that Trump personally did this, but that substantively on the MAGA right, on the nationalist American right, there's a real appetite to see the United States stand up to Ukraine and Zelensky and project the kind of line that Trump did. So

You saw the American Conservative magazine hailed Trump's performance as a great clarifying moment in which a U.S. president finally stood up to the warmongering Washington foreign policy blob. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon lauded the administration as giving a masterclass in how to deal with an entitled punk.

You saw the American Conservative magazine hailed Trump's performance as a great clarifying moment in which a U.S. president finally stood up to the warmongering Washington foreign policy blob. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon lauded the administration as giving a masterclass in how to deal with an entitled punk.

You saw the American Conservative magazine hailed Trump's performance as a great clarifying moment in which a U.S. president finally stood up to the warmongering Washington foreign policy blob. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon lauded the administration as giving a masterclass in how to deal with an entitled punk.

And you sort of saw similar sentiments from other conservative influencers and social media users and Republican politicians.

And you sort of saw similar sentiments from other conservative influencers and social media users and Republican politicians.

And you sort of saw similar sentiments from other conservative influencers and social media users and Republican politicians.

So I think they don't or a significant segment doesn't. And I think that there's really two really distinct reasons for that, depending on what part of the right you sit on. Among hardline American social conservatives, there is just outright fondness for Putin's Russia that's been this presence within the movement since about 2013, when Putin enacted what he called an anti-propaganda law.

So I think they don't or a significant segment doesn't. And I think that there's really two really distinct reasons for that, depending on what part of the right you sit on. Among hardline American social conservatives, there is just outright fondness for Putin's Russia that's been this presence within the movement since about 2013, when Putin enacted what he called an anti-propaganda law.

So I think they don't or a significant segment doesn't. And I think that there's really two really distinct reasons for that, depending on what part of the right you sit on. Among hardline American social conservatives, there is just outright fondness for Putin's Russia that's been this presence within the movement since about 2013, when Putin enacted what he called an anti-propaganda law.

It was also simultaneous with a broader crackdown on LGBT rights within Russia. American social conservatives, who at the time were dealing with an Obama-era advance in gay rights and social liberalism, really took inspiration from this, and Putin in the years after really started casting himself as a defender of traditional Christian morality against an increasingly decadent West.

It was also simultaneous with a broader crackdown on LGBT rights within Russia. American social conservatives, who at the time were dealing with an Obama-era advance in gay rights and social liberalism, really took inspiration from this, and Putin in the years after really started casting himself as a defender of traditional Christian morality against an increasingly decadent West.

It was also simultaneous with a broader crackdown on LGBT rights within Russia. American social conservatives, who at the time were dealing with an Obama-era advance in gay rights and social liberalism, really took inspiration from this, and Putin in the years after really started casting himself as a defender of traditional Christian morality against an increasingly decadent West.

And so there's a part of the American right that simply likes and supports Vladimir Putin, sees him

And so there's a part of the American right that simply likes and supports Vladimir Putin, sees him

And so there's a part of the American right that simply likes and supports Vladimir Putin, sees him

as kind of representing god's side in this new cultural cold war in which ukraine is kind of the front for this decadent european pro-gay cultural movement and that putin is essentially pushing back against this and so that informs their views of the ukraine russia conflict and thus their views of zelensky

as kind of representing god's side in this new cultural cold war in which ukraine is kind of the front for this decadent european pro-gay cultural movement and that putin is essentially pushing back against this and so that informs their views of the ukraine russia conflict and thus their views of zelensky

as kind of representing god's side in this new cultural cold war in which ukraine is kind of the front for this decadent european pro-gay cultural movement and that putin is essentially pushing back against this and so that informs their views of the ukraine russia conflict and thus their views of zelensky