https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-traditionalist-bannon-putin/
Steve Bannon, Putin protégé Alexandr Dugin, and other high-profile right-wing operatives are all adherents to this obscure yet powerful ideology.
By Benjamin Teitelbaum
It is a kind of
divine reprimand, a divine decree against humanity,” the thickly
accented voice on the phone told me on March 17, 2020.
At first, his words sounded like a predictable response to the coronavirus disaster from a religious zealot—like the sermons of fundamentalists who saw in HIV epidemics or September 11 God’s redress for moral impiety. But the person I was speaking to by phone from my isolated mountain home in Colorado saw a different kind of retribution at play: “It is a kind of punishment” he continued, “for globalization.”
Russian philosopher and political operative Alexandr Dugin thinks in unusual ways. Labeled imprecisely as a right-wing extremist, a neo-fascist, or a populist, he is instead apt to identify with the inconspicuous label of “Traditionalism.” In other words: He sees himself as fighting against the entirety of the modern world.
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