congress is speaking positively about the russian autocrat, tweeting, quote, putin protects the church, tradition, and russian culture to an extent that globalist cannot accept. he added that we deal with far worse governments regularly. of course, all of these republicans are being supported by their friends at fox news. tucker carlson has been especially persistent and pushing the anti biden and pro-russia message. last night, he asked his audience why they are following democrats orders to hate vladimir putin? since the day that donald trump became president, democrats in washington have told you, you have the patriotic duty to hate vladimir putin. it s not a suggestion, but a mandate. anything less is treason. you might be what is this really about? why do i hate putin so much? has putin never called me a racist? has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? has he shipped every middle class drop in my did he manufacture a worldwide