World Nut Daily: Putin is the Anti-Obama

[pampango]

The specter haunting Europe: Right-wing populism

What are the identifying marks of these right wing populist parties that have sprouted up now in almost every European country? There is first the rejection of universalism and transnationalism, and a reversion to patriotism and its songs, symbols, holidays, history, myths and legends. To peoples such as these, the preservation of the separate and unique ethnic and cultural identity of the nation supersedes all claims of supranational organizations, be it the EU or U.N. This sentiment is reflected not only in fierce resistance to further integration within the EU, but in visceral hostility to further immigration from the Third World, Islamic world or Eastern Europe. These people want to remain who and what they are.

A second telltale sign of the new populism is traditionalism and cultural conservatism, reverence for the religious and cultural history and heritage of the nation and its indigenous people. That victory in the recent Eurovision contest of Conchita, the bearded transvestite drag queen who performed in a gown, though celebrated by much of the European press, sent a message to millions of traditionalists that this is no longer their culture.

Another aspect of the rising populist right, as the New York Times notes, is a grudging admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Why? Putin not only publicly rejects the moral relativism of the West, under his guidance Russian social legislation is being consciously rooted in traditional Christian concepts of right and wrong.

Putin is the anti-Obama, moving to occupy the cultural-moral vacuum left by America. As we celebrate multiculturalism, LGBT rights and abortion on demand, Putin repudiates Hollywood values. When Western politicians and media rail against his annexation of Crimea as a violation of America’s rules-based New World Order, Putin invokes patriotism and nationalism in his defense ...

http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/the-specter-haunting-europe-right-wing-populism/

WND gets all the right-wing buzz words into one article: patriotism, supranational organizations, universalism, traditionalism and cultural conservatism, moral relativism, multiculturalism, LGBT rights and abortion or demand, Hollywood values, etc.

Buchanan has not lost his way with words and the ability to hit the hot buttons that motivate the right.

[Mike Nelson]

1. In the US, Putin would be a ...

...Republican.

[pampango]

3. I dare say perhaps a tea party republican at that. n/t

[Enrique]

2. he's being honest

I'm sure a lot of conservatives admire Putin and the european right-wing as much as Buchanan does, and point to it as their preferred form of conservatism, but they don't openly admit it.

[joshcryer]

4. What strange bedfellows.

Kind of alarming the US is the light of leftism in the world.