Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: Have Zelensky (and Putin) created a come-to-democracy moment? That’s up to us.
, is to blame Putin’s aggression on Biden’s “weakness on the world stage” and to characterize Biden’s foreign policy as “too little, too late.”Reynolds’s speech reflected a central current in the GOP — to get on the right side of popular sentiment in favor of Ukraine without cutting ties to Trump, and without giving Biden any credit for his work in corralling a broad global coalition against Russia’s imperial adventure.
Max Boot: With his praise for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Trump makes his apologists look foolish. Again. The Biden speech to which Reynolds responded was resolutely nonpartisan about Ukraine — and a lot of other matters, too. Couldn’t Republicans shelve their reflexive hostility toward Biden for at least the initial spell of the Ukraine crisis? This is what Democrats did after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.But we now seem incapable of recognizing common ground, even where it exists. A revealing episode: Florida Gov.
And until Putin discredited himself entirely with his Ukraine aggression, the Russian leader had successfullyamong Western democracies to make their politics even more dysfunctional. He built a following by casting himself as a foe of permissiveness, feminism, LGBTQ activists, secularists and diversity advocates. The more he aggravated feelings around these issues — in alliance with politicians who had an interest in driving wedges — the weaker he made the democracies.
But Zelensky can’t save anyone else’s democracy. We have to do this ourselves. Perhaps this terrible episode will help us recognize that our shared commitment to democracy runs a lot deeper than we thought. We need to come together to fight for it — starting at home.
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