One interesting aspect of all this is that Richard Spencer's ex-wife translated THE FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY by Alexander Dugin. Alexander Dugin is/was a big supporter of Trump and seriously Anti-Western and a Eurasianist. He is an advocate for a Pan-Eurasianist Union allying Russians (& Slavs) with Turkic people to combat the West. He was actually in Turkey giving speeches when there was an attempted Coup in Turkey. Subsequently, after the Coup, Turkey has begun allying with Russia and will be buying Russia's S-400 antiaircraft missiles. Russia, under Putin, has been working to destabilize Eastern Europe by either funding extreme Rightwing or Leftwing groups. The idea is to erode Nato and spread Russia's influence. To what degree, beyond moral support, the Russian hand has on some of these extremist groups is unclear. Some Dugin nuggets:
In the opening paragraph of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, for instance, someone exclaims, “I really believe [Napoleon Bonaparte] is Antichrist”—a view subsequently adopted by Pierre Bezukhov, the novel’s hero. Tolstoy’s own view may be more nuanced, but Dugin unambiguously identifies the United States as humanity’s eschatological antagonist. The claim is to be taken literally: “This is not simply a metaphor capable of mobilizing the masses, but a religious fact of the Apocalypse.” Russia’s role in the Eurasianist project is not merely to secure political autonomy for the region, but to save it from the Western, the secular, the modern way of life. “Only a global crusade against the U.S., the West, globalization, and their political-ideological expression, liberalism, is capable of becoming an adequate response.” In Dugin’s view, Eurasianists stand in common cause with Hugo Chávez and Al Qaeda.
Here is a link to an interesting article:
https://thepointmag.com/2014/politics/putin-west