He hates it so much that he'll accuse you of being a McCarthyist for doing so.
They still are not McCarthyist, though, because McCarthyism wasn't really about hating Russia — it was about hating liberals.
Joseph McCarthy was a United States senator from Wisconsin who served between 1947 and 1957.
McConnell isn't being accused of sympathy to Moscow because his opponents lack valid grounds for criticism and are resorting to a straw man fallacy.
Obviously, some people around him, including Michael Cohen, were trying to use his notoriety and his campaign to advance their financial opportunities.
That's something new to him, but there's another piece, which is that there is an ideological affinity between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.".
He added: "They're both kind of a self-styled conservative, self-styled nationalist, anti-multilateralist, kind of 'nation-state should come first.' »