re: #228 Anymouse
The Rise of the Traditionalist International: How the American Right Learned to Love Moscow in the Era of Trump.
The tl:dr version - the combination of Christians (especially Evangelicals but not limited to them), Ku Klux Klansmen, and outright Nazis would naturally gravitate to a murderous ex-KGB agent now in charge of Russia - because he explicitly set up his country to appeal to them.
Basically, it will come down to the notion that lying about Russia is not perjury just like getting a blow job from a bimbo is not cheating on your wife…