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The comparison of President-elect Donald Trump to that of murderous German dictator Adolph Hitler has gained further credence due to Trumps administration making it a point to hang around with literal Nazis. To add insult to injury, a Nazi leader has been officially invited to attend Trumps inauguration.
Trumps National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn, met with the leader of Austrias Freedom Party Heinz-Christian Strache back in December. The Freedom party has a long history of being aligned with Nazis, as its first leader was Anton Reinthaller, who was a literal former Nazi official and member of Nazis elite SS. What the two discussed is not known, but it likely had to do with Strache offering Flynn pointers to pass on to Trump on how to make the population docile and accepting of grotesque human rights atrocities.
The Trump team wanted to keep the meeting quiet, but Strache was proud of the meeting which took place at Trump Tower in Manhattan and he posted all about it on Facebook. The post is below where Strache confirmed, a meeting with Michael Flynn and other high-ranking U.S. politicians.
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/18/leader-nazi-founded-austrian-neofascist-political-party-invited-trump-inauguration/
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(14,855 posts)His white supremacist followers seem to like Russia/Putin for those kinds of ideas too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/alt-right-vladimir-putin.html?_r=1
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump mystified many on the left and in the foreign policy establishment with his praise for Mr. Putin and his criticism of the Obama administrations efforts to isolate and punish Russia for its actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. But what seemed inexplicable when Mr. Trump first expressed his admiration for the Russian leader seems, in retrospect, to have been a shrewd dog whistle to a small but highly motivated part of his base.
For Mr. Heimbach is far from alone in his esteem for Mr. Putin. Throughout the collection of white ethnocentrists, nationalists, populists and neo-Nazis that has taken root on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr. Putin is widely revered as a kind of white knight: a symbol of strength, racial purity and traditional Christian values in a world under threat from Islam, immigrants and rootless cosmopolitan elites.
Ive always seen Russia as the guardian at the gate, as the easternmost outpost of our people, said Sam Dickson, a white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan lawyer who frequently speaks at gatherings of the so-called alt-right, a far-right fringe movement that embraces white nationalism and a range of racist and anti-immigrant positions. They are our barrier to the Oriental invasion of our homeland and the great protector of Christendom. I admire the Russian people. They are the strongest white people on earth.