America is uniting against Vladimir Putin
Republicans are playing a more constructive role in the Ukraine crisis than Donald Trump must like
WHEN WALTER CRONKITE turned sadly against the war in Vietnam, legend has it, Lyndon Johnson knew he’d lost Middle America. By contrast, there is nothing reluctant about the denunciations of America’s much more modest military posture towards Ukraine by today’s most popular news anchor. For weeks Tucker Carlson of Trump-loving Fox News has been pushing an “America First” cocktail of disdainful isolationism, paranoid anti-elitism and Vladimir Putin fandom.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “America is uniting against Vladimir Putin”
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