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It's not weird at all, their media has been telling them that Liberals are un-American, even sub-human, for decades. Liberals are so obviously wrong that when they do gain political power, it's always because they cheated or they did something unfair.
Then they look at a guy like Putin, who (in their view) runs a democracy with a firm hand, and the support of his people. Not just any "democracy", mind you, but the very place where the godless Communist liberals used to rule! (Never mind that Soviet Communism bares very little resemblance to modern-day liberalism). They conveniently ignore all the bad shit Putin has done to consolidate his power and keep it much longer than he should have. Or worse yet, they embrace it as stuff that "needs to be done" to be an effective leader.
It doesn't take much more of a leap to conclude that everyone in the US must agree with them (or, at least, everyone whose opinions matter), and that dissent really should be snuffed out because the dissenters believe the wrong things. They view Putin as a model of a strong leader with convictions they share. And so they start voting for politicians who try to emulate what Putin does.
They might even acknowledge that Russia is really an oligarchy ruled by an elite, they just consider themselves oligarchs-in-training so they're OK with that.
Maybe you are right, I just don't get how people can be that stupid, and accept losing democracy, civil rights and international allies just to get back at the Democrats.
And here Putin is, literally conscripting any adult male that he can, to send them into the meat grinder without guns ammo or food. This is their model strong leader. Who would demonstratively throw their life away for a vanity project without remorse.
Nope that's way too deep. They see someone who is white and whose majority white country oppresses minorities and homosexuals and want that.