Neofascist Autocrats for Putin

Viktor Orban of Hungary, another Tucker Carlson wannabe dictator fave, suddenly finds that his relentless pro-Putinism become a political liability. It’s all smooth sailing while you’re owning the left opposition and denigrating gays and Muslims, but when you spend so much political capital on bowing to – and doing your best to emulate – Putin, that becomes a problem once Putin goes on his psychopathic war-crimes spree through Ukraine.

Same goes for Londongrad Tories and the UKIP champions of Brexit – a scheme whereby the UK imposed sanctions on itself. Same goes for Le Pen. Same goes for Mattini. Same goes for Trump and his cult. Same goes for AfD. Same goes for FPÖ.

The alliance between anti-democratic right-wing populist movements in the west and Putin’s expansionist, neo-fascist, one-party mafia state is becoming very stale, very quickly. The creation of these movements may arguably have resulted from domestic economic, racial, and nationalistic grievances, but it has been stoked and cultivated by Moscow in order to destabilize and weaken western societies and democracies.

Freedom and liberty and democracy will always prevail against cheap hate cults. Never bet on fash.