Effete neoconservative commentator Douglas Murray has penned a bizarre essay for The Free Press attacking the America First movement’s indifference toward the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, name-checking figures like Erik Prince and Stephen K. Bannon while implying the President’s base is somehow pro-Putin due to their refusal to side with globalists attempting to expand NATO and the European Union.
According to Murray—who feigned support for President Trump during the latter stages of his campaign, even appearing at Mar A Lago at the invitation of Elon Musk—wraps his argument in standard Cold War-era tropes, falsely attacking American populists and nationalists as “admirers” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Ukraine is not just a country that the Trumpian right has never visited. It is a fantasy country that they imagine they know everything about,” wrote Murray, failing to recognize that I, as one of the first “Trumpian right” reporters in the business, was on the ground during Kiev’s Maidan revolution in 2013. Murray, on the other hand, was not.
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