Putin supporting the Alt Right on a Global Scale:

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/trump-putin-alt-right-comintern/506015/

[lonestarnot]

1. I just saw one of the racist motherfuckers on CNN just now.

I don't like the feeling of hatred that comes over me when I hear one of them.

[Rex]

2. What a shock, they are all scumbags!

They are all happy right now, fucking losers think a total non starter will magically nova. Imbeciles the lot of them.

[okaawhatever]

3. Will you please cut and paste an excerpt from the story? It really helps some of us thx nt

[moonscape]

4. First 4 paragraphs:

One of the double-edged aspects of being a writer is that you can become known in all kinds of unlikely circles. That was what I was thinking when I pulled a large envelope out of my mailbox. The return address was Germany; the cover letter (in German) announced that I was the recipient of Compact magazine, and more oddly, requested that I should send an email confirming receipt.

The magazine itself, also in German, was about politics. A superficial look might suggest it was the anti-American manifesto of some fringe left-wing German group (“Heil Hillary! Candidate of US Fascism” reads one headline), but closer inspection revealed it came from the other end of the ideological spectrum.

A glance at a political profile of Jürgen Elsässer, Compact’s purported editor, discloses that he had been an extreme leftist who opposed German reunification and worked for Neues Deutschland, once the official newspaper of the East German Socialist Unity Party, the client Communist Party ruling East Germany in the interests of the USSR. Yet at some point in the 2000s, he migrated to the far right, and is now aligned with the new anti-immigrant party, Alternative für Deutschland. The prestigious newspaper die Zeit flat out calls Elsässer a Kremlin propagandist.

Elsässer’s shift from one political extreme to the other suggests that that he is an apparatchik whose first loyalty has likely always been to Moscow. When the USSR represented an authoritarian version of the left, he was a leftist; when the party line of the successor Russian state changed to right-wing authoritarianism, he obediently tacked right—a circumstance which shows that “left” and “right” are often arbitrary categories, particularly when considering the fringes.

[okaawhatever]

5. Thank you. Interesting stuff. nt

[dalton99]

6. Best summary:

Never in its wildest dreams could the old Soviet politburo have imagined it would get a U.S. major party candidate so congenial to its interests.

[GoneOffShore]

7. Thank you so much.

A very interesting piece and scary at the same time.