Yesterday on MSNBC, "The Daily Show" host Jordan Klepper discussed the MAGAt fascination and even adoration of Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin, which was stoked by Tucker Carlson's fawning, treasonous "interview" with Putin in February. It's no wonder that Carlson is the favorite on Russian state TV. For his part, Klepper travels to rallies by the Malignant Loser, interviewing the ridiculous mouth breathers who attend in their MAGA regalia, and has noted their love for the Russian dictator:
“I think the Tucker Carlson interview was a really important one. When we went out to these rallies in Pennsylvania and we went to one in Wisconsin as well and you ask what they thought of Moscow, more and more people pointed to the Tucker Carlson interview, ‘Putin looks like a nice guy, he seems smart, the subways look super clean.
Folks like this see Moscow, they want to think a place like that is better than [President Joe] Biden’s America and they buy into this image and it keeps getting fed over and over to them.
They like Putin being anti-woke, they like these anti-LGBTQ policies. So there’s something darker that lies underneath a lot of this. It’s folks not just being swayed by Vladimir Putin but there’s something there in the way in which he treats his citizen and controls his country that is appealing to a majority of the GOP base." (our emphasis)
Of course, the path was paved by their cult leader the Malignant Loser, who admires and emulates Putin's authoritarian policies, and who has almost certainly cooked up personal deals with Putin to develop properties in Russia to line their pockets (e.g., Trump Tower Moscow). More analysis of the MAGA/Putin attraction here and here.
(cartoon: David G. Brown, Los Angeles Sentinel)
