The Atlantic’s Nichols: Some Right-Wing Republicans See Putin as a ‘White Christian Savior of Civilization’

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NICHOLS: "But let’s understand that there are two separate things going on in the GOP. First of all, with people like MacGregor and others, you have to understand there are a group of right-wing Republicans who really think of Putin as this white Christian savior of civilization with whom we could make some sort of — we could link arms and make some sort of common defense against the Islamic world and against the encroachment of left-wing civilization and the drag queens and the gays and vegans and spelling reformers and all the other boogie men of the American right. That’s different from the GOP electeds who are drifting back and forth and trying to find someplace to land on this issue because they are fundamentally unserious people. They don’t care about foreign policy. They don’t care about the defense of Europe. They don’t care really about anything except their own careers. So what you are seeing is a bunch of cranks and crack pots on one side and a bunch of utterly hollow opportunists on the other.”