Friday, January 6, 2017

Trump, white nationalism’s favorite thinker, and America’s premier crackpot make strange bedfellows

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-white-nationalisms-favorite-thinker-and-america-s-premier-crackpot-make-strange-bedfellows-7e57c0b7e6be#.j41es9waz
"Aleksandr Dugin — a Russian theorist sometimes called “Putin’s Rasputin” because of his Kremlin ties — is the white nationalist movement’s favorite philosopher and shares certain ideological affinities with Steve Bannon, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump. If this wasn’t worrying enough, Dugin and Bannon share a personal connection with one of America’s foremost crackpot conspiracy theorists: radio host and Infowars.com proprietor Alex Jones."