democracy in ukraine, and we re on the side of democracy. yeah, i guess i m for democracy in other countries, i guess. that was ohio republican congressman mike turner taking tucker to school, trying to explain that the u.s. has historically stood with democracies in europe and against dictators who want to expand their borders by force. you know, because we re the good guys. now, sure, putin is more czar than communist, and he may well be the richest man in russia, the oligarch s oligarch. but don t forget the russian courts have a long track record of jailing opposition leaders like alexei navalny. last september a european human rights court found the kremlin responsible for the 2006 poisoning of a former russian intelligence official who defected to the west. so tucker is clearly standing on the side of a dangerous autocrat with delusions of grandeur and not just because tucker can relate to that. it s because tucker seems to have a thing for autocrats, a strongman fetish.