{"id":129157,"date":"2015-12-17T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/putin-loves-trump-of-course.html"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T00:58:34","slug":"putin-loves-trump-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/putin-loves-trump-of-course.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin loves Trump. Of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two billionaires with egos the sizes of major continents, who belittle (or worse) folk who disagree with them, and who exhibit fascist tendencies. What&#39;s not to love?<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s truly crazy is the idea that this might actually <i>increase<\/i> Trump&#39;s support in the US. Putin &#8212; who would just as soon see the US relegated to a second-class state &#8212; is admired in certain American conservative circles as a &quot;tough leader,&quot; and some American evangelicals like his hyper-traditionalist suppression of gay rights and religious dissent. If he endorses Trump, then those very people who usually decry &quot;foreign influence&quot; in American politics might be the first to use that as an excuse to support the Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Strange times indeed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+David Badash<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/davidbadash\/putin_endorses_trump'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/mLqvvwKlM9DL7i3xi-1Kk83tXdGEGoUgAnYD5WUFzl5Mows92TsE07p5M1pNXcHpiWkNRyA35kAlLuz1N0SBPZ26fjYj1g2uuCAphZXpeAXzkDSSaYBAEtR2ptR6CZZpr_Go6Noz72e92My1gTeDj1eDHOtIlAuBH0_7KWXWw7Q9qCx15DtBdKPOXgzLNQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/davidbadash\/putin_endorses_trump'>Putin Praises, Essentially Endorses Trump<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Russian president offers strong praise of his fellow billionaire, calling him &#8220;tremendous.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XLLbzh7QHnw'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two billionaires with egos the sizes of major continents, who belittle (or worse) folk who disagree with them, and who exhibit fascist tendencies. What&#39;s not to love? What&#39;s truly crazy is the idea that this might actually increase Trump&#39;s support in the US. Putin &#8212; who would just as soon see the US relegated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/putin-loves-trump-of-course.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putin loves Trump. Of course&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135123,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/vladimir-putin-explains-sort-political-system-thinks-us-needs.html","url_meta":{"origin":129157,"position":0},"title":"Vladimir Putin explains the sort of political system he thinks the US needs","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 4:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Good of Vladimir \"Russia is our friend\" Putin, the one Donald Trump always admires as a leader, has a good scolding for Americans. 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