ROMNEYISM ADVANCES, MAGA RETREATS — In the hours after Russia first invaded Ukraine, the GOP responses to the U.S. handling of the aggression took three basic shapes: the “establishment” line, which supported a muscular response to Vladimir Putin without directly condemning President Joe Biden; the Blame Putin and Biden camp; and the isolationist MAGA/America First crowd.
Yet now, the former president, as well as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), appear to be trying to vault themselves out of the pure MAGA camp and into the more vocally hawkish, anti-Biden/anti-Putin one.
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