Exactly—we and Russia should be allies.
That is what the leftists around the world fear most.
I may be misremembering, but during the W Bush years, didn’t we get along fine with Russia? Hasn’t it only been during Obama and Biden that they are the villains? I think you are right— the left does not want Russia and US to be friends.
Putin and Trump together—image what they could do if working together? The stars would be open to us. Russia and America together—who could stand against us? Image a Trump Hotel in Moscow and St. Petersburg? a Disneyland on the black Sea? Maybe a bridge between Alaska and Siberia? It would take some new thinking on the part of both nations.