1. In 1960, airport handlers in Fort Worth, Texas were confounded by an unclaimed Samsonite suitcase due to missed connection. They opened it & inside found fascist literature, porn, 7 birth certificates & passports from 4 countries, with different names but all for the same man
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2. Owner of the missed Samsonite luggage travelled under name of Richard Hatch. He was in fact Francis Parker Yockey, a fascist agitator soon arrested by FBI, which had been following him for years. He killed himself in jail & became a martyr of the far right still revered today
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3. Francis Parker Yockey, a strange Oswaldian figure who trotted the globe & intersected with covert networks in many countries, is worth remembering today as he planted in 1940s an idea that then seemed odd but which now is more common: Russia is a useful ally to far right.
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4. Yockey was a deranged anti-Semite, and active in trying to reactive fascist movements after WWII. In late 1940s, taking note of Stalin's anti-Semitic turn, Yockey started arguing that USSR's Marxism was superficial & European fascist should look to Moscow as a patron.
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5. Yockey's pro-Russia comments of the late 1940s and 1950s made him an odd man out. When he was found dead in jail of an apparent suicide in 1960, Yockey gained a new posthumous renowned, championed in particular by Willis Carto, leading far right anti-Semite.
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6. Thanks to Carto's mythmaking, Yockey became more famous in death than life. Collapse of USSR in 1991 made many on the right more receptive to the idea of Russia as an important ally.pic.twitter.com/MLh5CnnCOy
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Jeet Heer Retweeted The Republican Accountability Project
7. Yockey's legacy can be seen everywhere, for example over the weekend in far right conference organized by Nick Fuentes (where several GOP lawmakers spoke or were in the audience).https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1497471734609584128 …
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0:22The Republican Accountability ProjectVerified account @AccountableGOPNick Fuentes, the host of the White Nationalist event featuring@RepMTG@RepGosar and Wendy Rogers, said: "Now they're going on about Russia and Vladimir Putin is Hitler they say that's not a good thing." pic.twitter.com/6vvyNGO2m76 replies 44 retweets 213 likesShow this thread
8. For more on Yockey and the history of far right seeking an ally & patron in Russia, see here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/putin-aint-woke?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
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See also Kevin Coogan's book.https://www.amazon.com/Dreamer-Day-Francis-Postwar-International/dp/1570270392/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dreamer+of+the+day&qid=1645980571&sr=8-1 …
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