In Putin, conservatives such as Rod Dreher and Madison Cawthorn obviously see a kindred spirit
Cawthorn faces multiple primary challengers. Photo: Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images To most people, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a figure to admire. The former comedian has become the face of a country under siege; his personal courage is emblematic of Ukrainians now resisting the Russian invasion. Yet Zelenskyy has his detractors, and they aren’t all named Vladimir Putin. One is North Carolina representative Madison Cawthorn.
Cawthorn wasn’t directly quoting Putin, but he came close. Putin, too, has portrayed the Ukraine government as something akin to evil, saying that Ukraine is run by Nazis and that the “denazification” of the country is a goal of the invasion. But Cawthorn, who once visited Hitler’s vacation home and called the Nazi leader “the Führer” in an Instagram comment, probably has a different vision of wickedness in mind.
But Cawthorn’s comments at least have the tinge of honesty. In the years since Donald Trump’s election, the average elected Republican has quite a bit of common ground with Putin, a right-wing leader with a penchant for authoritarianism and an antipathy for LGBTQ+ rights. The U.S. Christian right, to which Cawthorn belongs, has strong links to anti-gay conservative Christians in Russia.
In Putin, conservatives such as Dreher and Cawthorn obviously see a kindred spirit. The Christian conservative movement is bigger than these two, but its sympathies bear watching over the weeks to come.
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