Democrats are looking to make Ukraine a wedge issue in order to keep control of Congress and get a leg up on the 2024 presidential race.

That’s what the attempt to smear the entire Republican Party with the stink of being pro-Putin apologists is about.

Every major elected Republican official has come out squarely opposed to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Many Republicans were urging Joe Biden to apply sanctions against Russia even before the invasion. But Democrats and their allies in the media have taken some ignorant comments from Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and have tried to paint the entire GOP as supporting Putin and his war of aggression.

But there is a case to be made for caution in going too far to show how anti-Putin one can be. John Nolte writes of the “moral panic” generated against Putin that could lead to war.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tweeting about the Russian military pulling a von Stauffenberg and assassinating Putin and soon-to-be-retired Adam Kinzinger suggesting a “no fly zone” are just two of the more obvious examples of this “moral panic.”

Calling for actions that would draw us into a war with a nuclear-armed nation is irresponsible madness. And voters are not going to forget come November which party was pushing war with a nuclear power.