"Russian as a model for the USA" -- Yes, because Putin is anti-woke and anti-LGBTQ. Many Rightists today would be happy to squash your rights and liberties if it gets them the pure "Christian" society they fancy, though without the Christian charity. (But if you ask them to make any accommodations in respect for other people's rights, t…
"Russian as a model for the USA" -- Yes, because Putin is anti-woke and anti-LGBTQ. Many Rightists today would be happy to squash your rights and liberties if it gets them the pure "Christian" society they fancy, though without the Christian charity. (But if you ask them to make any accommodations in respect for other people's rights, they're quick to decry the "tyranny.".)
Some see Putin is basically more virtuous than our "elites" because of his cynical alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, which apparently justifies the assassination of rivals and journalists.
A significant chunk of the Right, particularly in the "intellectual" wing, is becoming openly hostile to democracy because it means they can't always make the rules. And they might claim that their rules are simply the natural order of things, while "liberalism" -- very much including classical liberalism -- is "ideological" and at war with nature and God.
"Russian as a model for the USA" -- Yes, because Putin is anti-woke and anti-LGBTQ. Many Rightists today would be happy to squash your rights and liberties if it gets them the pure "Christian" society they fancy, though without the Christian charity. (But if you ask them to make any accommodations in respect for other people's rights, they're quick to decry the "tyranny.".)
Some see Putin is basically more virtuous than our "elites" because of his cynical alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, which apparently justifies the assassination of rivals and journalists.
A significant chunk of the Right, particularly in the "intellectual" wing, is becoming openly hostile to democracy because it means they can't always make the rules. And they might claim that their rules are simply the natural order of things, while "liberalism" -- very much including classical liberalism -- is "ideological" and at war with nature and God.