{"id":32828,"date":"2018-06-22T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32828"},"modified":"2018-06-22T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:01:02","slug":"republicans-support-european-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/republicans-support-european-fascists\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Support European Fascists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We on the left object to attempts by foreign governments to interfere with US elections to install extremist, white supremacist, fascists in positions of power.&#160; The Republican Reich does not object, because they are the fascists Putin helped install.&#160; Not only do they not object, but also, they are teaming with Putin to help install fascists in power in Europe.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0622TrumpFuhrer\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0622TrumpFuhrer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/0622TrumpFuhrer.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not new to hear U.S. officials rooting for regime change. It\u2019s just been a while since they\u2019ve talked about it with regard to Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s attacks on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/18\/world\/europe\/fact-check-trump-germany.html\" target=\"_blank\">against German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week<\/a> provided the clearest evidence yet of a sprawling American campaign to undermine her. While Trump\u2019s disdain for Merkel has been evident since the early days of his presidential run, he and his ideological allies have ramped up their efforts dramatically just as the German leader faces what experts call one of her most serious challenges yet: developing a Europe-wide policy on asylum seekers by July 1 to appease a crucial right-wing partner in her coalition government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merkel now has to contend with not only local opponents but also a network of influential anti-immigrant Americans and other international activists inspired by Trump and similar illiberal leaders, like Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orban and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re determined to punish the chancellor for welcoming more than a million desperate refugees seeking shelter in Europe since 2015 \u2015 and ultimately want to prove that compassion toward immigrants is now political suicide in the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>The leaders of the two biggest nations in Europe are increasingly besieged,\u201d said Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative, referring to Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. \u201cAnd both of the big outside powers, the U.S. and Russia, are on the side of those who besiege them.<\/strong>\u201d&#8230;&#160; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/angela-merkel-donald-trump-immigration_us_5b2bbc25e4b00295f15a1d5d\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Freedom loving people all over the world need to stand together against Republicans like Trump and his boss, Putin!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We on the left object to attempts by foreign governments to interfere with US elections to install extremist, white supremacist, fascists in positions of power.&#160; The Republican Reich does not object, because they are the fascists Putin helped install.&#160; Not only do they not object, but also, they are teaming with Putin to help install <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/republicans-support-european-fascists\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}