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Please Media-Say it Out Loud! Trump IS a Russian Asset!
Even though Jonathan Chait’s New York Magazine’s June 2018 essay “What if Trump is a Russian Asset?” is a tad old, it’s important for Americans to take heed and check off the chronological points of corruption you may have forgotten with all the Republican created distraction we’ve been forced to endure. I’ve always thought that the depth of the Russia scandal, if known, would be breath-taking when aggregated, and Chait’s essay dutifully puts it all together from the 1980s. Now as the Ukraine scandal has led to Trump’s rightful impeachment, the dreaded evidence is coming out — dripping faster and faster.
What could have caused this careful nurturing of Trump?
The Russian co-option of Trump fits perfectly into Putin’s vision of an ascendance of a new Russia (post-Soviet Union collapse), rising on the philosophical writings of an early 20th century Christian fascist named Ivan Ilyin. According to Yale historian Timothy Snyder in his book,he Road to Unfreedom, Putin embraced this vision and revived this man’s writings that proclaim Russia will be the future “Christian salvation” of the world. Snyder writes that Ilyin “despised the middle classes, whose civil society and private life . . . kept the world broken and God at bay,” quoting the fascist philosopher, “Evil begins where the person…
