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To: Navy Patriot; exDemMom; Chengdu54
from the article: "Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test.
He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world and anathema to progressives.
I don’t want to compare him to our own president, but if you know enough about what a given American thinks of Putin, you can probably tell what he thinks of Donald Trump."

Total leftist rubbish.
No American conservative admires dictators, leftist or "right-wing" or anything else.
US conservatism is the opposite of dictatorship, we value US Constitution, freedom, law and the Bible.
None of that corresponds to Putin.

The only thing we might grudgingly admit is that Putin defends his country, and we'd like our President to do likewise.
But so did Stalin, Hitler & Mao Tse-Tung defend their countries, and nobody suggests they are admired today.

10 posted on 04/02/2017 5:36:58 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

He’s simply a wartime leader. I think he likes freedom just fine, but in wartime it’s always curtailed, especially when the enemy is found within.
Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Nixon, Bush and Obama all did things similar to Putin.
The Russians are clearly under attack from the globalists.
The Globalists have attacked their banking, their economy, their allies abroad, and attempted to launch a color revolution. They try to push homosexuality and perversion on them. They celebrate and enrich Russian oligarchs who will play ball with the international bankers. It’s always something.

So, as a president facing an existential threat, he tightens the screws. That’s about it.


45 posted on 04/02/2017 7:13:01 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: BroJoeK

What you wrote is quite a stretch. I don’t admire Putin, but he’s not my enemy. Putin hasn’t murdered millions of people.


48 posted on 04/02/2017 7:24:46 AM PDT by Chengdu54
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To: BroJoeK
The only thing we might grudgingly admit is that Putin defends his country, and we'd like our President to do likewise. But so did Stalin, Hitler & Mao Tse-Tung defend their countries, and nobody suggests they are admired today.

I'm curious, oh Great Conservative, how many millions has Putin killed? I mean since you compare him to an assortment of men who murdered in the millions. But you left out Pol Pot.

ML/NJ

64 posted on 04/02/2017 10:36:25 AM PDT by ml/nj
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