Russians in U.S. About Trump: We Love Him! He’ll Be Just Like Putin!
Well, the extensive Russian community here in L.A. is just ecstatic that Trump is about to take over. A recent interview in “Little Moscow” - the area surrounding the Fairfax/Santa Monica intersection - found many Russians beaming from ear to ear, and chortling over the ascension of a “strong man.”
“They expressed to me their belief that the nation needed ‘a strong man’ to deal with the external threats to the country,” Windmueller wrote to the Journal in an email. “Several suggested to me that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Trump would work well together, as they marveled at [Putin’s] leadership, and they were hoping that Mr. Trump would emulate that model within this country.
This. This right here is what keeps us all up at night, isn’t it? The thought that Putin will be whispering in Trump’s ear, and that the FSB is going to be guiding him as he dimwittedly, systematically, dismantles all the things that make the U.S. a democracy.
Russian president Alexander throws his fists in the air in jubilation over the election of Donald Trump. “We’ve won! We’ve won! I can’t believe it! We’ve won!”
What could be behind their support of the demented talking yam? Hm. I wonder … could it be all the economic insecurities on display here:
A deeper look at Soviet history might explain why expats — the majority of them Jewish refugees who fled anti-Semitism between 1970 and 1990 — appear so unsympathetic to other refugees and immigrants, said Robert English, director of the USC School of International Relations.
“They see themselves as sort of naturally Americans,” he said. “They are white people and they are from the big country that occupies a whole continent, a former superpower. They look at Latinos, Asians and Muslims and see people who don’t really belong here.”
I guess we’ll never know, eh?