Is Russia Getting _More_ Popular Among Republicans?

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

American Racists Look for Allies in Russia

While President Donald Trump pals around with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S.’s racist right is making open overtures to Russian white supremacists.

One day after Trump’s disastrous summit with Putin last week, the League of the South, a neo-Confederate hate group, announced that it would launch a Russian-language site. The southern secessionist group’s crush on Russia is the latest appeal by U.S. white supremacists to Russia and Putin—an alliance that has strengthened during the Trump presidency.

“Russia is our friend,” a group of torch-waving racists chanted during an October rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “The South will rise again.”

The event was headed by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who has been stumping for Russia before Trump took office. Spencer, who advocates for “peaceful ethnic cleansing,” has promoted Russia as the kind of ethnostate he wants to create, calling it “the sole white power in the world” in 2016. Until October 2016, Spencer was married to Nina Kouprianova, a Putin apologist who translates the writings of Russian fascist Alexander Dugin.

The white supremacists’ chant of “Russia is our friend. The South will rise again,” summarized several years of neo-Confederate flirtation with Russia. Despite groups like League of the South decrying “globalism,” the movement’s leaders have long looked to Russia as an ideological ally.

"I have more in common with Vladimir Putin than I do with Barack Obama," League of the South President Michael Hill wrote in 2014. "One defends a nation—the Rus; the other lords over an anti-White multicultural empire. One upholds an ancient Christian tradition; the other deplores the Christian faith. One acts like a man; the other like a preening capon."


Hill waxed poetic on Putin’s “machoness”: “Sure, Putin puts on a lot of this stuff, takes his shirt off, rides a horse,” he said, according to Gawker, “but at the same time, you know, you can juxtapose it with Obama sittin' on a stupid-looking bicycle with a goofy-looking bike helmet on his head. And it doesn't look good for Obama. Putin looks like a man, you know.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/american-racists-look-for-allies-in-russia

These ideas seem dangerous: like that ethnic cleansing is somehow peaceful but also that is really a frame of something that many of these people know is not peaceful at all. In any case, is all this talk of Russia not making much of a dent because Russia is actually becoming more popular? I mean, sure, SNL can make fun of Putin with his shirt off but this may just be laughing in an echo chamber with Democrats.

This article in the op is in addition to what we already know about Republican politicians and NRA being linked to Russia.

So, is Russia getting MORE popular among Republicans?

 

[ZiprHead]

“Sure, Putin puts on a lot of this stuff, takes his shirt off, rides a horse,” he said, according to Gawker

Are you saying that wasn't from Vlad's Tinder profile?

 

[BH]

Conservatives despite their morality claims are more opportunistic morally speaking in my opinion. They are more than likely to let moral standards go to get what they want when they think they have the ability to do so and get away with it. I attribute this is high fear level among them as well as a lesser sense of duty to other people to begin with.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

My brother lately has been doing something of a deep dive into the world of pro-Russia punks. They like the fact that Russia is a white ethno-state. They think Putin is great because he is a strong leader. They utterly discount any facts such as the fact that under Putin Russia has become an oligarchy run by thugs. On some of the sites he has been on pointing out the basic facts gets you banned immediately. Apparently there is a lot of this stuff out there on You tube for these little twerps. Some notable far right racist organizations such as League of The South are flirting with Russian racists. Many of these idiots seem to be permanently unemployed, have some sort of mental problem, the walking wounded. They are openly racist. So far there are no pro-Russian prison gangs. It is a world my brother finds scary and weird as anything the incels have cooked up.