This @nymag article theorizes why Trump is focused on Russia. Frightening in its implications.
I’ve pulled out some salient quotes in the replies, but encourage you to read it.
nymag.com/daily/intellig…
I’ve pulled out some salient quotes in the replies, but encourage you to read it.
nymag.com/daily/intellig…
“He wants a world he intuitively understands: of individual nations, in which the most powerful are free to bully the others.”
“He believes in diplomacy as the meeting of strongmen in secret, doing deals, in alpha displays of strength — not endless bullshit sessions at multilateral summits.”
“This is why he has such a soft spot for Russia. Its kleptocratic elites see the world in just the same way.”
“It seems to me he is maddened by the Mueller investigation not just because it may cast some doubt on the legitimacy of his election, but because it has impeded his attempt, alongside Putin, to reconstruct a new world order on nationalist, rather than internationalist lines.”
“Putin fascinates too, of course, because of his “very strong control” of his country. It’s how Trump instinctively feels a country should be run. The forms of democracy exist, but one party controls everything, and one boss controls the party.”
“Putin mirrors Trump’s domestic politics as well: the cultivation of the religiously orthodox and the socially conservative in defense of a kleptocratic cult.”
“This is what the GOP now is. It’s an authoritarian, nationalist leadership cult, hostile to the global order. Republican voters increasingly like Putin.”
All of this makes it so clear that we must win in November, and then build on those wins again in 2020, but what do we do about all of our fellow citizens who like this style of governing? //END
