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A Republican 'civil war' on Ukraine erupts as Reagan's example fades
GOP leaders and voters are increasingly skeptical of an extended commitment, part of a broader shift away from conservative support for foreign interventionsWhen Ronald Reagan addressed a brand new organization of upstart conservatives nearly five decades ago, he cast U.S. entanglements abroad as part of the nations destiny to take on leadership of the free world and to serve as a shining city on the hill that inspired other countries, sparking thunderous applause.
At a dinner named after the former president at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering earlier this month, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake pushed a very different message to the partys activists.
We are living on planet crazy where we have hundreds of billions of dollars of our hard-earned American money being sent overseas to start World War III, Lake said in her keynote address, inflating the amount of U.S. aid thats been sent to Ukraine since Russias invasion. This is not our fight. We are America First!
Lakes strident aversion to deepening American involvement in Ukraine, echoed by many speakers at CPAC, has been dismissed by some Republicans in Congress as a fringe viewpoint held by a handful of conservatives that does not meaningfully threaten NATO unity against Vladimir Putins invasion. Congress has appropriated more than $113 billion since the war started in multiple bipartisan votes.
But Republican voters are increasingly adopting those same skeptical views, with surveys showing them becoming colder to continued U.S. aid as the conflict drags into its second year. Likely and declared GOP presidential candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former president Donald Trump, as well as a growing faction of Republican lawmakers in the House, are promoting that skepticism as well, with potentially seismic consequences for the conflict and the party itself.
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The Republican Party -- the party of appeasement.
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A Republican 'civil war' on Ukraine erupts as Reagan's example fades (Original Post)
Zorro
Mar 2023
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Skittles
(153,160 posts)1. why don't they just SAY it
repukes are increasingly becoming FULL-BLOWN FASCIST
Zorro
(15,740 posts)2. Well, that too
Also the party of cowards.
2naSalit
(86,604 posts)4. I think we're past...
"Becoming", Skittles, they're already there. It's the shoving it down our throats part that's giving them trouble.
Actions speak louder than words. Words, for them, are for deflection. They don't have to mean anything.
usonian
(9,795 posts)3. Echoing Papa Putin's Propaganda.
via Pox News.
tirebiter
(2,536 posts)5. Luckily Wilson and Roosevelt endure.
It is up to the US to back Liberal Democracies
wnylib
(21,450 posts)6. Raygun's (Bush Sr's) policy of backing foreign governments
was based on money.
1) Back American business interests by force.
2) Bolster American private military contracts via foreign wars.
Backing a real democracy fighting for its freedom was not part of the plan.