Dugin’s Influence on Trump: A New Era of Political Theology

There are figures in the political and ideological landscape of contemporary Russia who defy simple classifications. Aleksandr Dughin, for example, is harder to fit into a recognizable typology: he is not a politician, but he influences politics; he is not a theologian, but he often invokes Orthodoxy; he is not a general, but

Dugin’s Influence on Trump: A New Era of Political Theology

Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP on lemonde.frAngel Jaramillo TorresIt is not only Putin but also his theologian and guru who has penetrated the corridors of American power.A connoisseur of the nooks and crannies of Moscow’s streets, the political theologian Alexander Dugin is very reminiscent of Falstaff, that plump figure who, according to Harold Bloom, educated Prince Hal — the future Henry V — in the wisdom of taverns in William Shakespeare’s…