Analysis: The GOP’s roller-coaster ride with Putin
Sean Hannity’s call for taking out the leader of a nuclear power is certainly highly questionable, at best —. But it also represents the remarkable culmination of a rather abrupt shift in how Russia is portrayed by influencers on the right. Whatever the cause — be it hopeless contrarianism, an inability to read the situation, an effort to toe Donald Trump’s line, or simply actual conviction — it has amounted to one of the most puzzling and shortsighted efforts in recent media history.
The story of the GOP’s relationship with Putin is, as most things are with Putin, a complicated one. And we can turn to a pollster who has regularly surveyed it — the — for insights. And while it’s been a wild ride, it’s never really been a situation in which the party seemed ready to forgive the kind of thing Putin is doing now.Before Trump launched his campaign for president, views of Putin were somewhat akin to what they are now. Right before Putin annexed Crimea in 2014, Republicans viewed him unfavorably by a margin of 67 percent to 24 percent.
It didn’t change things much initially; by the summer of 2016, Republicans still disliked Putin 69 to 16.But then Trump won, and we all learned that Putin has interfered in the 2016 election to further that goal. And quickly, things changed significantly. Literally the day after
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