# How Republicans See the Political Spectrum

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**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-republicans-see-the-political-spectrum/960680 "2022-03-08T13:19:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-republicans-see-the-political-spectrum/960680/30 "2022-03-09T01:53:52Z")

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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> (Think of the cognitive dissonance that must be going on in many right-wing circles just recently, with the original line-to-be-adopted being ‘ _who cares about Ukraine, it’s nothing to do with us, Russia is cool_ ’----which in recent days has had to painfully morph into ‘ _we admire the brave Ukrainians_ .’
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> (There are a lot of broken brains out there, no doubt.)

Columnist George WIll recently noted that _Hillbilly Elegy_ author J.D. Vance (whose book, incidentally, I really liked), who is now running for the U.S. Senate nomination in Ohio, stated two weeks before the invasion that he “(didn’t) really care what happens in Ukraine”.

He suddenly reversed that position. Likely, after some underpaid staffer informed Vance that there are 43,000 Ukrainian-Americans in Ohio.

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