…While I haven't called up every white nationalist group in the US and Europe for comment, it is fair to say the Russian premier has a fervent fanbase among the far right in the west. Why is this? They love what he has done with Russia. They love the way he has dismantled women's rights. They love his attacks on gay and transgender people. They love his dismissal of western liberalism. Their values align perfectly.
There is also a whiff of antisemitism in the right's support for Putin. On Sunday, for example, Wendy Rogers, a Republican state senator in Arizona, tweeted about the Ukrainian president: "[Volodymyr] Zelensky is a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons." "Globalist" and "Soros" are well-established dog whistles, of course. (Zelenskiy is Jewish.)…
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