Today’s GOP Would’ve Rooted for Drago in ‘Rocky IV’

At some point in my lifetime, the Republican Party went from saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” to effectively telling Russia’s current leader, “Mr. Putin, invade our NATO allies.”

I’m left wondering how this transformation could take place, and (almost as curious) why so many of my contemporaries switched sides in this debate?

I’m not alone. In response to a Fox News tweet about “young Republicans” like Sens. Mike Lee, Eric Schmitt, and J.D. Vance (who criticized a Senate bill funding Ukraine), Democratic Sen. John Fetterman weighed-in. “I’m their same age but I never rooted for Russia in [the movie] Red Dawn,” Fetterman tweeted. “Were you rooting for Russia in 1984 like 2024 too? #WOLVERINES.”

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