The Bulwark and Newsday columnist Cathy Young describes the triggering effect that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's visit and speech to a joint session of Congress had on the substantial fifth columnist Putin wing of the Republican / Seditionist / White Supremacist party:
"The question of why the Trumpian populist right is so consumed with hatred for Ukraine—a hatred that clearly goes beyond concerns about U.S. spending, a very small portion of our military budget, or about the nonexistent involvement of American troops—doesn’t have a simple answer. Partly, it’s simply partisanship: If the libs are for it, we’re against it, and the more offensively the better. (And if the pre-Trump Republican establishment is also for it, then we’re even more against it.) Partly, it’s the belief that Ukrainian democracy is a Biden/Obama/Hillary Clinton/”Deep State” project, all the more suspect because it’s related to Trump’s first impeachment. Partly, it’s the “national conservative” distaste for liberalism—not only in its American progressive iteration, but in the more fundamental sense that includes conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: the outlook based on individual freedom and personal autonomy, equality before the law, limited government, and an international order rooted in those values. Many NatCons are far more sympathetic to Russia’s crusade against secular liberalism than to Ukraine’s desire for integration into liberal, secular Europe." (our emphasis)
We also suspect that a goodly portion of them -- particularly in the far-right media and organizational echo chamber -- are getting some form of payment through back channels to spout the Kremlin line. We also suspect that in the Nick Fuentes corner it has everything to do with the fact that Zelenskyy's Jewish. We cannot let these Putin stooges undermine our resolve to defeat Russia's criminal invasion of Ukraine.
