There has been a concerted campaign by the American right over the past number of years to portray Russia as a conservative utopia Christian ethnostate, where t

There has been a concerted campaign by the American right over the past number of years to portray Russia as a conservative utopia Christian ethnostate, where they worship God, guns, and country, and being gay is illegal. This view has lead some in my family to proclaim they'd rather be Russian than a Democrat, because they feel they have more in common with foreigners living across the world under a dictatorship in another country than their own family in a different political party.