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FOCUS: Margaret Talbot | Will Putin Unite the European and American Right? 
Far-right European leaders, united in a fight to reinforce national borders and resist globalization, see allies in both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. (photo: Alexei Druzhinin/Reuters/Sputnik/Kremlin)
Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker 
Talbot writes: "In some ways, this is an odd fellowship: populist nationalism would seem to militate against an international brotherhood. But the European far right shares with Putin a contempt for the liberal West and a taste for 'traditional' values, including a rejection of immigration and multiculturalism, especially when it makes room for Muslims, and, in many cases, the shunning of L.G.B.T. rights." 
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