Its seen as the last bastion of alpha-male, pre-50s, nationalist, anti-gay, anti-minority strong holds.i dont know about the republican party itself, but right wing cacs online have been admiring Putin for several years now
remember when those goofy photos of Putin on a horse with his shirt off started going around and we all laughed at them?
a lot of cacs saw those and said"now there's a real alpha white man"
And its increasingly religious as the Russian church there covers up a lot of corruption on behalf of people so it maintains this veneer of legitimacy to the faithful
A lot of these elements have reached out to the USA too.
They were apart of the Cal-exit succession movement, they reach out to far right preachers and invite them to seminars and they foster a lot of the anti-jihadist social movements as well.
Its very crafted to create some sort of links out to fringe groups in the Wes.
He can't even close the grip. America LAWST!!! 
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