{"id":24474,"date":"2017-09-06T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24474"},"modified":"2017-09-06T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:32:03","slug":"the-link-between-russia-and-white-supremacy-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/the-link-between-russia-and-white-supremacy-in-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Link between Russia and White Supremacy in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is very rare that I find myself yelling at the TV when Rachel Maddow is on.  She is very good at historically contextualized nuanced well informed analyses. But when I watched a segment of last night&#8217;s show (on the Internet, I have no cable) I was shocked to see that she missed something really important. If, that is, it is real.<\/p>\n<p>In the segment below, she makes the point that there are two &#8220;clear through lines&#8221; in the whole Trump thing. One is the love of Russia and Putin by Trump, his unwavering stance that Russia and Putin can do no wrong. The other is the consistent &#8220;vehement antipathy towards immigrants&#8221;, clearly part of a white supremacists strategy, with respect to who has been appointed to various positions, the things Trump has said, and the policies attempted. The difference, Rachel notes, between these two separate through lines is the apparent novelty and strangeness of the Russia theme, while the racist trope has deep roots with Trump.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_aeugenics_170905' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here, I think, is what she missed: They are not two separate through lines. They are two faces of the same coin. The Russian oligarchs are white supremacists too.<\/p>\n<p>This is underscored by the news that just came out that Russian entities had purchased ads on Facebook during the last election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election\/2017\/09\/06\/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.08b464d1bc4b&#038;wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation&#038;wpmk=1\">described this way<\/a>: &#8220;Most of the ads focused on pumping politically divisive issues such as gun rights and immigration fears, as well as gay rights and racial discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are all sorts of reasons Russia wants to control the US presidency and state department. There seem to be some great economic benefits to Trump for selling the government to Putin, something we will be forced to assume happened if even a small number of the accusations emerging are true. But, there is also the potential of the two main actors and their associates having a common philosophy about race.  This would not be the first time dictators or would be dictators bonded over such things.<\/p>\n<p>I could be wrong.  Am I wrong? I suppose time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very rare that I find myself yelling at the TV when Rachel Maddow is on. She is very good at historically contextualized nuanced well informed analyses. But when I watched a segment of last night&#8217;s show (on the Internet, I have no cable) I was shocked to see that she missed something really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/the-link-between-russia-and-white-supremacy-in-the-white-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Link between Russia and White Supremacy in the White House<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1138,1366,533,1367,1368,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6mK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}