Republicans revered Ronald Reagan for bringing down the Soviet Union, the “evil empire.”

But Trump and MAGA Republicans swoon over Czar Putin’s iron-fisted rule, gay-bashing and bare-chested manliness.

President Biden armed the Ukrainians and united the free world against Russia’s brutal invasion. Now he is sending Ukraine tanks.

Courageous Ukrainians exposed Putin’s military as rotten, clumsy and corrupt.

But Republicans in Congress are going “all wobbly,” as Margaret Thatcher would say, on Ukraine aid.

Through the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, Democrats were on the defensive about national defense. Republicans ridiculed them as weak.

That’s why Democrats didn’t stand up to George W. Bush when he started two wars that lasted two decades, at incalculable cost of blood, treasure and our global standing.

Now it’s Democrats defending the free world and Republicans sounding retreat.