MAGA Fascists Love Putin for Two Reasons
Because they failed history in high school and they love the New Testament
Most of us would agree that America’s Christian fascists — MAGA — are not the sharpest tools in the shed. There is really no other way to explain how a person can make it to adulthood and believe the nonsense spewed by Trump, Steve Bannon, etc.
This collective ignorance is not limited to just things like, for example, their reaction to the COVID pandemic, climate change, Trump, guns — the more there are, the safer we all are — and the rest of the shopping cart full of lunacy. It also pertains to their love for Putin. Putin is a hero to them, and the Ukrainians, fighting to turn back the tide of Russia’s fascist revolution, are suckers. They should be left out to dry and wither on the vine in the eyes of the MAGA leaders like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, and 117 others who voted not to fund Ukraine last week.
In the past few days, Republicans managed to strip billions in military and humanitarian assistance requested by Mr. Biden out of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government from shutting down. They rallied a majority of their colleagues in the House to vote against funding a program to train and equip Ukrainian troops. And a small faction of hard-liners joined with Democrats to boot Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, as speaker after accusing him of making a “secret side deal” with Mr. Biden to fund Kyiv’s war against Russia (Opposition to Ukraine Aid).
The Republicans, as dumb as they are, think we are dumber. They are obviously confusing all of us with their base when they say silly things like “aid to Ukraine draws money away from domestic problems.” The linguist that I am, and I even consider myself a cultural linguist, let’s roll the dice on this and see they come sevens in my translation of those words: “Domestic problems” means building a wall and devising ways and laws to prevent minorities, students, and the elderly from voting.
Most MAGA would vote for Putin
In the eyes of the fascist right, Putin is a leader any of them would give their left something or another to have. They consider him strong, unforgiving in the face of weakness or disloyalty, and someone whose love for country empowers him to fight back against the “Soros-dominated” Western elite.
Putin’s commitment to the traditional family, they believe — albeit wrongly — is demonstrated by the anti-gay laws in Russia. The fact that gay couples with children can be imprisoned for what Russia calls “the corruption of children with aberrant lifestyles” sends MAGA into hysterical writhing fits on the floor. Jabbering in tongues, they flop and flip, declaring Putin a prophet from the New Testament.
Putin is fighting back against a corrupt and delusional world in which gender is no longer a decision made by God but a whim of the week, forcing everyone around to accommodate that gender madness. These are not my words. I am merely feeling the emotions — because they are incapable of thought — of the average Fox News watcher, Trumpist.
Democratic voters overwhelmingly support continued support, according to a CNN poll, and Republican voters, Fox watchers, and Tucker Carlon lovers say the U.S. should stop funding Ukraine. As my MAGA brother said at the beginning of the war, immediately after Tucker began bashing Zelensky, “You know, they say there is dirt on him also.” These people always have some unprovable dirt on the forces of righteousness, but when proven that their leaders are corrupt — and even rapists — they shrug it off with a simple “He who lives in a glass house should not be tossing around stones.”
What makes Putin also attractive to the right is that he is a white man perceived as a macho, Bond-like figure who, by day, struggles to protect Christians and, by night, is using his God-granted authority to rid the world of the leaders of the liberal, degenerate culture. Putin, they think — but are stunningly clueless — is a character straight from the New Testament whose struggle was prophesized thousands of years ago. A defender of conservative and family values, Republicans want the Jewish — key word here — Zelensky to be crushed.
Republicans, however, know nothing about how weak Russia’s culture is. They don’t understand that Russia is not a pro-family culture but rather one that considers that every man, woman, and child born into the country can, by the mere fact of their birth, be used by the state in any way, shape, or form — like sent into meat waves in Ukraine. There is no value put on human life in Russia, and everyone lives to ensure that the likes of Putin and his close circle are enriched and treated like gods among men.
This is not surprising, however, because this is how they treat Trump. The number of laws broken by Trump could fill the yellow pages of a phone book, yet most Republicans see nothing wrong with his behavior. Republican voters want a dictator because it will permit them to crush what they consider the behavior of degenerates in our society. Dictators know enough from the movie that they are somewhat prone to excesses — that’s okay in the book of the average MAGA voter.
Finally, what attracts the right to Putin are his threats. If the evil of liberals and the supporters of liberal democracy proves too strong and cannot be overcome, then pro-Putin Republicans would read into that loss a Biblical twist — the end has come. Let Putin’s threats to “blow shit up” be realized.
Then, accession into God’s kingdom for all good but murderous believers would commence.