Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western Values: Vladimir Putin
Source: New York Times
As the founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, an American group that aims to preserve the privileged place of whiteness in Western civilization and fight anti-Christian degeneracy, Matthew Heimbach knows whom he envisions as the ideal ruler: the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
Russia is our biggest inspiration, Mr. Heimbach said. I see President Putin as the leader of the free world.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump mystified many on the left and in the foreign policy establishment with his praise for Mr. Putin and his criticism of the Obama administrations efforts to isolate and punish Russia for its actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. But what seemed inexplicable when Mr. Trump first expressed his admiration for the Russian leader seems, in retrospect, to have been a shrewd dog whistle to a small but highly motivated part of his base.
For Mr. Heimbach is far from alone in his esteem for Mr. Putin. Throughout the collection of white ethnocentrists, nationalists, populists and neo-Nazis that has taken root on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr. Putin is widely revered as a kind of white knight: a symbol of strength, racial purity and traditional Christian values in a world under threat from Islam, immigrants and rootless cosmopolitan elites.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/alt-right-vladimir-putin.html
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Yhat is so nucking futs I have no words....and I am a professional wordsmith
dhol82
(9,353 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)DOA RIP
The Dems best fight that fascist pig pres elect and the fascist pig in the Kremlin, fight them at every turn, no meeting half way, total war.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)we should have gone to Russia after taking out Germany in 45'. If needed, use our nuclear weapons on Moscow.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)lanlady
(7,134 posts)My lord, how blind can a person a be? and to think these views are just one hop away from Trump.
Astraea
(468 posts)or has anyone else never heard of Putin having "traditional Christian values"?
ck4829
(35,076 posts)Those are some great values to emulate.
Hugin
(33,142 posts)It's an epidemic... of "Do as I say, not as I do.".