Are US Republicans going soft on Ukraine?

Recent polls show that 47% of Republicans think the US is doing too much

Florida governor Ron DeSantis at a town hall meeting in 2021
Florida governor Ron DeSantis at a town hall meeting in 2021
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How far the Republican Party has fallen, said David French in The New York Times. Forty years ago this month, Ronald Reagan stood up for Western values in the face of “an expansionist, aggressive Soviet Union” by giving what became known as his “evil empire speech”.

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