1. We're used to this but Trump's open admiration for Putin is remarkable. Nor is it a quirk of his personality. There's a wider swath of right wing opinion that is quite fairly described as Putin friendly.https://twitter.com/dabbs346/status/1496647138738159624 …
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3. Russia as a bulwark against liberalism goes back to Metternich, if not earlier. This was briefly eclipsed under communism but even then there were a few figures, notably the fascist agitator Francis Parker Yockey, who looked to Russia with love.
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4. The roots of right-wing Russophilia are complex, mixing elements of anti-liberalism and white supremacy (sometimes in tension). Steve Bannon perhaps got to the nub by saying, admiringly, "Putin ain't woke."https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1496678275975897089 …
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5. A deep dive into the history of pro-Putin sentiment on the hard right.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/putin-aint-woke?utm_source=twitter …
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who was that one dictator who was ruthlessly cracking down on "drug dealers" or whatever. Duterte? I vaguely remember Trump slobbering all over him. There's more examples I'm not remembering.
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You could have left out "russian" and it still works
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If you experience both (white) racial & gender anxiety in today's world, there are few leaders for you. Putin and Orban are the only ones I can think of -- aggressively white, heterosexual strongmen. Poland might be the only other.
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Ukrainians are White people. Does this complicate the issue?
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No. They mostly care about having absolute power and wielding it absolutely.
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1/ I agree. The book that I have coming out in the Fall with University of Wisconsin Press, *Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia*, is all about this.
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2/ I do think, however, that Trump became a vector for direct Russian influence with his efforts to build a real estate empire in the Russian Federation. The oligarchs in that country were only too happy to dangle that prospect in front of him, for political purposes.
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