By: David Simpson

David Simpson
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 08:44:21 +0000

Dugin is simply providing a narrative to shape the inchoate misery and helplessness of the great mass of the Russian people, just as Hitler and Mussolini did for the Germans and Italians in the 20s and 30s. It doesn’t really need to make sense intellectually, just speak to the emotions. If there is enough pent up psychic energy available and desperately searching for an outlet, the narrative provides an escape. Like Trump’s MAGAism and Brexit, and now Le Pen / Zemmour / Melencthon in France, Orban in Hungary or Erdogan in Turkey.