1. So, Carlson and Orban, what the hell is up with that?pic.twitter.com/RsxcQoPQEG
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3. The "transferred nationalism" of the right is under-studied but it's real: there were fellow-travellers of fascism in 1930s and National Review types in 1960s/1970s who glamorized Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Smith's Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa
4. National Review used to regularly run tourist ads for fascist Spain, authoritarian Greece, racist South Africa etc. Suggesting there was a market for authoritarian tourism.
5. But more recently there's a bunch of factors that have made autocratic central & East European countries very attractive spots for "transferred nationalism": white solidarity, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ, anti-"globalist" (and all that implies).
6. Some thoughts here on what is driving the new romance of American conservatism with autocratic foreign regimes:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/authoritarian-tourism?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
Not justifying Carlson, but don’t we as lefties do this with Scandinavian countries?
“I like some of the stuff they do in this other country...” “And yet you’re not from *that* country, you’re from *this* country, curious contradiction I caught you in”pic.twitter.com/9DBRXIKDlV
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