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Trump, Putin the Mob, and the Terrorism - by Mike Nova

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Trump, Putin the Mob, and the Terrorism by noreply@blogger.com (Mike Nova) Thursday October 20 th , 2016  at  6:58 PM News Reviews And Opinions 1 Share Trump, Putin the Mob, and the Terrorism Trumpism - Putinism rears its ugly double head. Machismo , authoritarianism , greed, double dealings, criminal connections, and cheap but skillful populism and demagoguery is their common body. The Russian Mafia State and The Underworld International play their "Samson and Delilah games" with the West, using Trump as their "unwitting agent" and "playing him like a fiddle" . These are the games of deception, betrayal, domination and conquest. The similarities in personalities , both general and political, of Trump and Putin , are striking. Theirs is what Theodor Adorno called the " authoritarian personality " (" a personality type that involved the "potentially fascistic individual") or what the R