Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores the impact of President Donald Trump’s decision to support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.
I’m thrilled to hear the news that the U.S. will be transferring weapons to our NATO allies, which our NATO allies will be transferring to Ukraine, and that new tariffs on Russia are in the works. …
… “It’s everything, it’s Patriots. It’s all of them. It’s a full complement, with the batteries,” President Trump said. Trump said the air-defense systems would arrive “very soon, within days actually, because a couple of the countries that have Patriots are going to swap over and we’ll replace the Patriots.” …
… [T]here’s evidence that the perception of widespread MAGA opposition to helping Ukraine is driven mostly by a couple of high-profile outspoken outliers, like Tucker Carlson.
Echelon Insights found that when asked, “Do you support or oppose continuing to give weapons to Ukraine for the conflict with Russia?” among those who describe themselves as bigger supporters of Trump than the Republican Party, 43 percent strongly or somewhat support giving weapons to Ukraine, 40 percent were strongly or somewhat oppose. When asked, “Do you support or oppose Donald Trump’s decision to continue to give weapons to Ukraine for the conflict with Russia?” The numbers among the same demographic shift to 53 percent support, 29 percent opposition. …
… If you characterize describing yourself as more supportive of Trump than the GOP as “the MAGA base” — which seems like a reasonable decision — then MAGA is, at worst, about evenly split on supporting Ukraine. Once the decision to continue supporting Ukraine is characterized as Trump’s, barely a third of MAGA opposes the move, and Republicans as a whole overwhelmingly support the move.
The people who run around claiming to speak for MAGA may not really speak for MAGA.
Those who support the continued independence of Ukraine and standing up to Russian aggression should not look a gift horse in the mouth.
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