The missing piece of this otherwise strong story is race.https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/us/politics/putin-trump-conservatives.html?smid=fb-share&referer=http://m.facebook.com …
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Necessity makes strange bedfellows
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Almost like racial categories are created and discarded like political tools
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This "whiteness" is even refuted by much of Russia's own mythology of identity, according to Orlando Figes.
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Another feed for RU brand of 'resentment' and their nascent super-fascism per Kadyrov
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Irish were portrayed as apes in British press. Now we're like the whitest people ever.
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And often by the Russians themselves (see Blok's Scythians, for example).
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As has often been the case, Russia is turning into a blank mirror in which to project fantasies of the society some want here.
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Rich Lowry was confused about this on
@jbarro's show. Talked about "western civilization" in trumps speech as CONTRAST to Russia -
Apparently totally unaware of role Russia plays in worldview of today's racist alt-right. Insane ignorance of his own side
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I thought that much of Russia was Asian?
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