A handful of #MAGA devotees have openly endorsed #RussianPropaganda, but more #Republicans have explained away #Trump’s behavior as reflecting some motivation other than outright sympathy for Moscow: He is transactional, he is a nationalist, he admires strength & holds weakness in contempt.
And it is all true: Trump does admire #dictators. He does instinctively side w/ #bullies over victims. He does lack any #values-based framework for American #ForeignPolicy.