"The commonalities between Putin's conservatism and Moore's run deep. Its fixations center on the evils of Islamic radicalism and Islam in general, nonwhite immigration and the threat of 'replacement,' and the decline of traditional Christian morality, especially the rise of gay rights. This is the conservatism of Trump, Bannon, and Steve King rather than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. (Even though, as we've seen, the two forms of reactionary politics are generally able to work together.)"
Jonathan Chait at New York discusses the confluence of Vladimir Putin and the Republican Party.
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