![]() ![]() Instead, Ukrainians are throwing themselves at tanks. When we insist on being real, we’re called extremist and dangerous. We are an artificial people in the eyes of the Russian Reich. The ethnonationalist speech that Putin gave before he started this latest atrocity is an echo of every insult I’ve ever received from a Russian for identifying with Ukraine. He believes that Americans should treat one another as compatriots, not enemies, and that they should care about people in other countries. He believes that the free world must stand together. Biden believes in democracy and the rule of law. But the gap between his vision of America and Trump’s vision of America makes those faults insignificant. He botched the negotiations on his Build Back Better plan, misjudged the pullout from Afghanistan, and underrated the severity of inflation. They applied terms such as “dictator,” “regime,” and “communist countries” not to Putin, but to Democrats who enforced vaccine mandates or mask mandates.īiden has his faults. Meanwhile, in a 75-minute forum to lay out their agenda, House Republicans barely mentioned Ukraine. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did the same on Tuesday. Tom Cotton repeatedly ducked questions about Trump’s praise of Putin. But they suck up to him, refuse to renounce his arguments, and often parrot them. Many Republicans pretend that Trump doesn’t represent their party. ![]()
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