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Tuesday, March 8th, 2022

‘Key to white survival’: how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior

Author:     Sergio Olmos
Source:     The Guardian
Publication Date:     March 05, 2022
 Link: ‘Key to white survival’: how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior
Stephan:   Putin represents the aspirations of American christofascists, a large portion of the Republican Party and its leadership, particularly criminal Trump. They aspire to: White supremacy, a distorted and rather nasty form of Christianity, authoritarian fascism, and suffer hysteria over any form of sexuality that is not male-dominant heterosexuality. It is interesting to look back at history and see this same process occurring as Hitler came to power; there were lots of Nazis in America in the 1930s. No one ever says that anymore but it is true. As I have said repeatedly here, about a third of Americans do not value, or even like democracy because they don't like equality, gender, racial, whatever.
Putin is now seen as the upholder of traditional Christianity. Photograph: Sputnik/Reuters

“Can we get a round of applause for Russia?” asked Nick Fuentes, on stage last week at a white nationalist event. Amid a roar of applause for the Russian president, just days after he invaded Ukraine, many attendees responded by shouting: “Putin! Putin!”

It would be easy to dismiss the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) in Orlando, Florida, as a radical fringe. But speeches by two Republican members of Congress – one in person, the other via video – guaranteed national attention and controversy.

The backlash showed how the war in Ukraine has exposed the American far right’s affinity with Putin. That affinity is complicated by the tortured relationship between Russia and former president Donald Trump, whose rise Moscow supported with a covert operation to undermine US democracy.

Fuentes, a notorious antisemite, created AFPAC to coincide with the more mainstream Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where Trump was the headline speaker last Saturday.

At AFPAC, Fuentes introduced the Georgia congresswoman […]

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2 Comments

  1. Lori on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 7:05 pm

    Trump, Gosar, Fuentes, Greene and related GOP affiliates etc, belong on a trashy Jerry Springer show. They are ridiculous.
    If they like Putin so much,,, they should move to Russia! That would make MANY DIVERSE INTELLIGENT AMERICANS here -very happy.

    • Albus Eddie on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:53 am

      Hi Lori,
      I love your sense of humor. I recall in the early 1970’s conservatives stating that if Jane Fonda was so happy with communism she should move to North Vietnam. What goes around comes around. The irony is sweet!