Because they're the same sort of unimaginative self-centered authoritarians tapping the want sort of impulses.
The main difference is that GOP office holders still have some risk of losing their jobs and/or going to jail. Putin may get couped, but he doesn't have to worry about elections.
Oddly, or not, Putin uses identical rhetoric in characterizing what's wrong with Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Because they're the same sort of unimaginative self-centered authoritarians tapping the want sort of impulses.
The main difference is that GOP office holders still have some risk of losing their jobs and/or going to jail. Putin may get couped, but he doesn't have to worry about elections.