And Trump Wins the Coveted Dugin Endorsement

 

duginThe Weekly Standard’s Robert Zubrin brings this news: “Putin’s Rasputin endorses Trump.” You may vaguely remember my fulminating impotently about Alexander Dugin here:

Russia’s become a gigantic, malign, lunatic-conspiracy-theory factory, and the ideology behind it is every bit as expansive, totalizing and destructive as the ideology behind the Soviet Union. The mistake too many make is to see modern Russia as just another authoritarian state, acting rationally in pursuit of its national interests – albeit a mischief-making one with nuclear weapons — rather than a new incarnation of the ideologically-driven Soviet colossus of yore.

This is understating the threat. Russia’s behavior is a product of an ideology, there is a method to its madness; the ideology is, I fear, as insidious as communism, fascism, or Islamism; and must be taken just as seriously. It’s not traditional Russian imperialism, although certainly it has its roots in it. It’s best described as Duginism, after its best-known theorist, Alexander Dugin …

As Zubrin noted before,

What Russia needs, says Dugin, is a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism.” On the other hand, “Liberalism, is an absolute evil. . . . Only a global crusade against the U.S., the West, globalization, and their political-ideological expression, liberalism, is capable of becoming an adequate response. . . . The American empire should be destroyed.”

And voilà, Dugin’s predictable endorsement:

But Trump … He is a sensation. In fact, it is a real change from the usual display. The Republicans, as well as the Democrats, are the representatives of the US ruling elites. It is a special part of society, being quite far from the ordinary Americans. This elite considers not America, but the world, not society, but unbelievable sums of money serves not people, an abstract utopia of the world government and global financial oligarchy. The American elite is not even American. Thus, there is Donald Trump, who is tough, rough, says what he thinks, rude, emotional and, apparently, candid. The fact that he is a billionaire doesn’t matter. He is different. He is an extremely successful ordinary American. He is crude America, without gloss and the globalist elite. He is sometimes disgusting and violent, but he is what he is. It is true America.

… He is trustworthy: the black peacekeeper promised to change everything, but was unable to change anything, nothing at all, and Hilary Clinton, with a quickly aging poker face, doesn’t promise to change anything, maybe Trump will be able to get America’s natural borders back.

Maybe, that redhead rude Yankee from the saloon will get back to the problems inside the country and will leave humanity alone, which is tired of American hegemony and its destructive policy of chaos, bloody rivers and color revolutions?

Trump is a leader. Most likely, he is fake, but even if he is not fake, he has no chance of winning, as the globalist elites and financial oligarchy control practically everything in the USA.

But we want to put trust in Donald Trump.

Vote for Trump, and see what will happen.

Or maybe … don’t. That would be my advice.

So. He’s got Jean-Marie Le Pen’s endorsement, Dugin’s, and David Duke’s. He still hasn’t secured formal approval from Kim Jong-il, at least. (Would you be surprised at this point?)

Oh, and this just happened:

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Can anyone remember a weirder time, politically? For sheer outright weirdness, this is record-setting.

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  1. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    Why does anyone still listen to Karl Rove?

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  2. Marion Evans Inactive
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    Mike LaRoche:I just saw Rubio give a rousing victory speech. Who wants to tell him?

    You see, now he is thinking “Hey, I could win Florida”. He’ll hang on until the 15th at least. Which is fine. But after that, it will be a problem for the anti-Trump front.

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  3. BuckeyeSam Inactive
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    What does Rubio do when he gets routed in Florida? Face it, Ricochetti, Rubio’s two weeks from taking that job with the sugar lobby.

    I still really don’t get this place. Rubio means legalization for all the illegal aliens, which will invariably lead to screams for citizenship and Rubio and GOPe will no doubt comply.

    Try wining elections with another 12 million to 30 million Democrat voters.

    Ricochet should change the name to Bullet to the Head.

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  4. Richard Finlay Inactive
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    Roberto: Trump is the ultimate anti-status quo candidate. Whatever one’s distaste for the current order and many have complaints from all sides for different reasons, many whose reasons are entirely in opposition to each other, Trump is their man. He is the one who will knock over the table and toss all the cards in the air.

    So, “Change and Hope”?

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