In 1987, President Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union to “tear down this wall.” Today’s Republicans and “conservatives” would have told them to keep the wall up, build it higher – and we will help you do it. In the Age of Trump, the Republican Party has fully jettisoned the Cold War-era rule that “politics stops at the water’s edge.”

Source: Republicans turn up the racism to drive up GOP opposition to Ukraine | Salon.com