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Trump’s ‘law and order’ message is based on breaking the law and creating chaos.
Russia just finished its premier economic forum in St. Petersburg, The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). As I wrote last week, it used to showcase how Russia transformed its economy and became a key player in an interconnected world economy. Today, despite all the “Wow, look at how good we are doing overcoming your sanctions,” the spectacle is sad and embarrassing.
The Kremlin used the forum to showcase Russia’s commitment to “traditional and family values” by ponying out some loser foreigners who “found themselves” in Putin’s Russia. Russia also publicly began aligning itself with the Taliban in Afghanistan, receiving an official delegation from the country. More than of the sessions at the economic forum focused on overcoming the degradation of the West’s “gay policies and destruction of the traditional family.”
As wild as this sounds, yesterday, throughout most of Europe, right parties made substantial gains, which would have seemed impossible ten years ago. In the way that The Great Depression set the table for a “peaceful” Nazi takeover of the Weimar government in Germany, so too the policies put in place to stop the spread of COVID turned many against left and centrist ruling parties — thanks…
