Running for Your Life: Alt Right Readies for the MF of All Political Campaigns

OK, so the other day I saw it, the weaponizing of political campaign messaging, a bumper sticker on a truck in my neighborhood, Park Slope, known as one of the most left-wing Democratic neighborhoods in New York City. Usual voting record: 94 percent blue.

The bumper sticker? Get this:

FIGHT FOR TRUTH/PUNCH A JOURNALIST

That, combined with this, from the gut-wrenching nonfiction book by Douglas E. Schoen, called “Putin’s Master Plan,” published 2016 (before Trump) by Encounter Books, page 68, makes for a woolly time ahead, 51 weeks and counting till America Votes 2020.

“RT (formerly known as Russia Today, which Putin started in 2005 and which has expanded substantially since its original English-language-only focus. RT now broadcasts in French, German, Arabic and Spanish; it has dedicated stations in the US and English; and it has styled itself as an alternative news source to Western media. The Kremlin invests $136 million a year in promoting Russian media abroad, with considerable success: RT has close to 1.2 billion views on YouTube, second only to the BBC. RT’s video arm, Ruptly, looks to compete with Reuters and the Associated Press.”

I can hazard a guess that the “journalist” targeted in the bumper stick doesn’t work for RT ….

Buckle up, folks. This isn’t going to be pretty.

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