Sebastian Gorka, who is drumpf’s Deputy Assistant of hating on Muslims, and who proudly wore chest macaroni that identified him as a devotee of Hungarian Nazi collaborator Miklós Horthy, today asks us to “give collaboration and cooperation a chance” when in comes to Russia.
“On Thursday, Jake Tapper asked the White House’s senior cable news surrogate Sebastian Gorka to explain the administration’s reasoning.
“We want to give collaboration and cooperation a chance,” Gorka explained. “The fact is we may not share the same philosophy, we may not share the same type of statesman view of the world but the fact is there are some issues of common concern.”
When Tapper suggested that such a policy would amount to rewarding a foreign power for interfering in our domestic affairs, Gorka replied, “Jake, I’d ask you the question: Do you wish us to have bad or deteriorating relations with the nuclear power that is the Russian federation?”
I’m sure if you asked Gorka why he wore the medal during the RNC in Cleveland, he would say that he did it to honor his dear old Dad, who belonged to the same Order of Vitéz and was a prodigious anti-communist back in his homeland, Hungary.
But that same order also counted as a member….
“Horthy (who was) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who controlled the country from 1920 through 1944, and entered into an alliance with the Nazis early in World War II, according to the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum. Horthy’s paramilitary units killed hundreds of Jews, and 437,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz under his watch during the summer of 1944 alone, per the museum.
Despite that brutal legacy, in the last few years Horthy has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity among Hungary’s ultra-nationalist far-right, particularly in the Jobbik party, whose leaders have been accused of stoking anti-Semitism. Statues of Horthy have been erected in towns across Hungary, and conservatives have taken to wearing bocskai jackets to formal events.
The contemporary right-wing sees Horthy as a patriotic strongman who helped rebuild Hungary after the devastation of World War I, while the left views him as a shameful symbol of the country’s collaboration with the Nazis, as Reuters has detailed. Horthy’s Order of Vitéz has a similarly complex legacy, as the U.S. State Department considered it an organization under Nazi control during World War II.”
What would dear old Dad think?
Putin is no communist but I am sure he’d like to collaborate these idiots right out of Hungary.