If your mental model of the 2024 far right doesn't address their infatuation with Putin, you need to go back to the drawing board.(told in tweets)

(The far left tankies' continued loyalty is a topic for another day.)


This is a good place to get up to speed on the interview itself.

My hands-down favorite write-up of the Tucker Carlson-Putin interview was by the amazing @FrancescaEbel. Not even close. https://t.co/7q0yus8f47

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 9, 2024

And now on to the reaction, starting with a couple of US senators.

Tuberville believes that Putin wants peace, and the United States wants war. This is the new MAGA Republican Party. Donald Trump’s party. Putin First! pic.twitter.com/HyAs73Qcb9

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 10, 2024

The Washington Post is reporting that this Ukraine aid package is designed to control Donald Trump and make it impossible for him to get us out of this conflict. That’s why the funding extends well into next year.

I’m a hell no.

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 10, 2024

Setting aside for a moment that an event like J6 could never happen in Moscow because every organizer would’ve been imprisoned and/or murdered before it got off the ground, if it was possible 10,000 people would’ve been shot. But yeah, America First! pic.twitter.com/BL7FGkagEh

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024

Putin shill & “America First” Senator with another sarcastic post where he thinks he is being clever suggesting the Biden Admin represses free speech more than Putin. No, Putin would never dream of doing something like this - he loves free speech & is very tolerant of opposition. pic.twitter.com/aoTtr8kVcL

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024

If you like fake history. The Putin Fan Club still retains a few members after that debacle from the “America First Patriots.” pic.twitter.com/l85aVbpM2C

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024

1. “Off the cuff” - Putin has been telling this false Soviet version of E. European history decades. I heard nothing from him in that I hadn’t heard before.

2. I would rather have an Admin that sees Putin for who he is and deals with him accordingly, rather than someone he owns. pic.twitter.com/TnmZiZ2Lsk

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024

Even right wing Tucker fans were bummed about this interview where Putin talked mostly uninterrupted about the history of Eastern Europe from the Mongol sack of Kiev to present day. It was an unmitigated disaster for Tucker as Putin mocked him repeatedly. But I found one fan. pic.twitter.com/hq0LoYh0Z1

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024

The Republican Party pic.twitter.com/CW3DfMvNtY

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024