The 21st Century Uniquely American Fascism of Putin-Trump & Rowers draws on the 20th century fascism of the European past that was and remains antithetical to the Enlightenment and its philosophers. In these ways and more the Republican Party and the American Right have become what we with allied Europeans took up arms to fight against throughout the 20th century in defense of precepts, values, mores that originated with the Enlightenment.
The American Right's long term and consistent rejection of the EU and modern European institutions that have a lineage from the rationality and classic Liberalism of the Enlightenment are high profile and vehement. The Republican Party of the American Right heaped a constant praise on Putin from 2012 until mid 2015 when Trump descended the escalator in Faulty Tower. The Republican Party of the American Right has always hailed Putin as the strongman leader, the master strategist, the master chess player, the efficient defender of an enforced unitary and monolithic society and its politics and so on.
In contrast the American Right does not criticize or critique Putin and Russia, focusing instead against European precepts, values, mores, immigration policies in particular among other post nationalist endeavors, citing these as threatening Russia via the Nato alliance that -- precisely the opposite -- protects Europe from Russia and preserves European security and defends it. It is Putin who has changed the borders in Europe by force of state arms for the first time since World War II. The Republican Party meanwhile has become the largest pro Russia political party outside of Russia.