RIA Novosti published an article with a vague headline "In the United States, they talked about the failure because of Ukraine." In it, it briefly paraphrased columnist Rod Dreher's column on the aptly titled The American Conservative website.
Republicans in the United States are unable to resist the spreading ultra-liberal and "progressive" "wok culture" in the country <increased focus on social inequality such as sexism and racism – The Insider>, while their leader in the Senate supports the pumping of weapons in Ukraine, which raises the question of whether America needs such a conservative party, writes columnist Rod Dreher in an article for The American Conservative.
“Now let me ask you conservative readers: Do you believe that American government institutions have failed you? Do you trust the American establishment to guard the streets, our borders, treat the sick, educate the youth "without politics", defend free speech and fight any fashionable social doctrine? Do you think the Republican Party understands or cares about how you feel?
“If they have no idea what to do with the “voukization” of American education, and for some reason they think that, as Mitch McConnell put it the other day <Senate Minority Leader — ed. The Insider)>, funding the war in Ukraine is the number one priority for Congress, even more important than the future of America itself – well, what's the point of having a conservative party? I'm asking you," Dreher concluded.
It is noteworthy that the author, the senior editor of The American Conservative, plays the role of “an outraged American conservative voter”, although he himself lives in Hungary and works at the Danube Institute on a scholarship funded by the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Dreher is a big fan of Orban and glorifies him in every interview, especially for anti-LGBT laws. He is also active in building ties between American conservatives and the Hungarian government. For example, in 2021, he invited Fox News host Tucker Carlson to visit Hungary and arranged for him to interview Orban.
In general, Dreher is not just a conservative – he is a journalist and writer who has built a career on scandalous homophobic and racist statements. For example, in 2009 he feared that homosexuality might be "legitimized" and said that this "would fix and legally codify a purely contractual, nihilistic view of human sexuality." He added, "I believe that would be a profound distortion of what it means to be a real person." And in 2007, he even advocated gay segregation.
After the 2019 New Zealand mosque shootings that killed and injured more than 90 people at the hands of neo-Nazi Brenton Tarrant, Dreher wrote that the shooter had "legitimate and realistic concerns" about the "dwindling number of ethnic Europeans" in Western countries.
The journalist is also a conspiracy theorist. In 2006, he converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy due to scandals of child sexual abuse by priests. And everything would be fine, but he blamed the violence on the “gay lobby”, which allegedly settled in the Catholic Church.
In addition, Dreher practices dubious methods of dealing with his opponents. For example, in the early 2010s, he launched an anonymous website where he defended Metropolitan Jonah, who at the time was a bishop of the Orthodox Church in America. The metropolitan drew a lot of criticism from colleagues and parishioners, including because of the proposal to return under the supervision of the Russian Orthodox Church, with which he maintained close ties. The journalist not only insulted the opponents of the metropolitan, but also published their personal data until his affiliation with the site was revealed.
In May 2017, Dreher published without context the words of black professor Tommy Curry of Texas A&M University, presenting it as if he had incited violence against white people. “To be equal, to be liberated, some white people may have to die,” Dreher quoted the professor, without mentioning that Curry was at the time discussing the historic role of self-defense in the black community in response to racial violence such as lynching. Subsequently, Curry was subjected to a wave of racist abuse and intimidation.
In general, it is not surprising that such a person was "disappointed" by the leaders of the Republican Party, voting for military assistance to Ukraine.