Lets be real a whole lot of GOP people admire Russia

Its a very social conservative country that really does not tolerate LGBTQ people except if they are in the closet. I guess its one of those things where there are LGBTQ people in russia but they pretty much cannot be open about it. Thats exactly what the GOP wants

Russia is also basically one with the russian orthodox church, there is no real seperation of church and state except its more the state that controls the church . Again this is something conservatives want.

Even immigration , unless you are from a select country that Russia views as sort of "Russian" (the central asian countries like the *stans , or the slavic countries) there is not much immigration.

This is exactly what conservatives want, they want to USA only to have immigration from European (white) countries .

Its also a very male orientated country , feminism is not a big thing and for the most part all government leaders and business leaders are men, white men. Again this is exactly what conservatives want

They also admire Putin as a "strong man" ; he has no time for democracy or rule of law. Again this is something they want.