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Some frogs may know of him already. Alexandr Dugin presented himself as pro-Trump and anti-globalism until 2025 when he turned on MAGA and began promoting deepstate mouthpieces including (but not limited to) those listed in the title.
Dugin's 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics explicitly calls for Russia to use disinformation, subversion, and fomenting racial, ethnic, and political conflicts inside the US to create instability and promote isolationism. Playbook sound familiar?
He has publicly praised Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Judge Napolitano, and others as ideological "friends" or "real America First" voices. Likely most here can spot the pattern in those names.
Mockingbird media calls Dugin "Putin's brain" although Putin has never publicly referenced Dugin and the two have never met. Because Russia Russia Russia.
For further reading here are some informative X posts, which I will also copy / paste into the comments.
https://x.com/L08818/status/2030812072129224905
To gain leverage within the Democratic Party, the DSA is employing a tactic that Trotsky dubbed “entryism”—the willful effort by a small, disciplined cadre of radicals to infiltrate a more moderate organization and subvert it from within. It’s the same tactic that, throughout history, far-left organizations such as the Militant Tendency have routinely used to amass power. Unless the Democrats respond forcefully to the DSA’s entryism, they risk being overrun by extremists who will poison the party’s national brand and sap its capacity to compete with an already radicalized GOP.