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Selv Trumps tidligere beundrere på Europas yderste højrefløj er begyndt at være grundigt trætte af ham og se ham som en belastning. Sådan har vi andre haft det altid, men det er godt, at fascisterne er begyndt at bekæmpe hinanden.
The European far right can try to run from Trumpism, but they can't hide. In the end, their methods of (mis)governing, their bad policy ideas & their sick ideology is no different. Everything they touch turns to shit, as Portugal is learning now with its do-nothing-but-make-life-worse government.
Keep banging the Brexit = MAGA drum
& the Trump = Farage / Gove / Johnson drum
He's always been a liability.
He's a liar ‼️
Always been a liar.
He's a bully,always been.
He'll stoop to any level to take your last penny.
He'll never, ever make good a debt.
He'll threaten, bully & blackmail his way out of everything.
Add this to his other traits and you've got a piece of trash
The fact RW parties are desperate to distance themselves from Trump now his brand is ultra toxic is all the more reason their recent proximity to him should be highlighted at every turn. How many benefitted financially from this association? Plus DT chose his Euro ambassadors to spread his agenda.
NATO already has its own messenger - The European Commission plans to switch by end of year - Belgium recently launched "BEAM" for government use.
More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote.
Brexit was secured with lies. It hasn't delivered any of the claimed economic benefits.
Post Trump world will be more polarized.
Nobody under the age of 28 had a say on Brexit.
Need another referendum.
🤡
It was showing in England and Germany when Musk started interjecting the MAGA message into their scene before elections and it had a negative effect. EU sees Trump, the USA chaos, division, violence in politics and doesnt want that American circus.
It's going to be interesting here in America over the next generation as our culture, standards, currency, technology, and politics become no longer the global standard.
It isn't just governments making the switch. My son and his teenage friends are using the same decentralised open source alternatives to the well known apps.
As Trump screws the UK with tariffs and makes the cost of living crisis hit even harder with his Strait of Hormuz idiocy it's important to stress the international links between far-right scammers like Nigel Farage and paedophile Donald Trump
via @cleacaulcutt.bsky.social & Nette Nöstlinger
against the @ec.europa.eu said Le Pen’s close ally quoted above. “We need a big country to lead the revolt,” the ally said. “If we win in 2027, other countries will follow.” /ends
Those positions didn’t necessarily cost Orbán the election; many far-right policymakers attribute Péter Magyar’s victory to his focus on corruption and bread-and-butter issues.
Given that hostility toward Brussels didn’t make or break the contest, Orbán’s defeat won’t mean “the end of the fight”
Orbán provided the template for the populist agenda in Europe: a confrontational attitude to EU institutions, and attacks on rule of law and on the media landscape. Many nationalist parties across the bloc have embraced such tactics at home. /13
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has precipitated a reckoning among Trump’s ideological allies, with the AfD’s leadership increasingly distancing itself from his U.S. administration.
But there’s plenty left of Orbán’s legacy that the far right can carry on. /12
were among the various French political leaders who accepted invitations to meet U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner.
The National Rally senior official quoted above said the meeting with Kushner “shows we are capable of talking to the world’s great players.”
That’s not to say Le Pen hasn’t embraced the administration when it was convenient. Louis Aliot, the mayor of Perpignan, represented the National Rally at the memorial for assassinated right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk last year. And Le Pen and party President Jordan Bardella
She’s very cautious, and kept her distance,” said a former official from a rival far-right group.
Close ties with Washington “can be a liability and be misinterpreted,” echoed one of Le Pen’s close allies. “We like our friends in Washington, but we don’t want them to tell us what to do.” /10
Le Pen’s National Rally has been more skeptical, given Trump’s unpopularity among the French electorate and with the far-right party’s own voters. “Ever since the Capitol attack [in 2021 following Trump’s 2020 election loss], Marine Le Pen realized that it’s not a good idea to get too close to him.
the far right from governing.
AfD leader Alice Weidel has continued to try to keep the Trump administration on good terms with her party, telling reporters she doesn’t see close ties to Trump as a burden and that she believes “Orbán ran a very good campaign.
as part of its national security strategy.
The AfD initially saw Trump’s backing as an opportunity to cultivate legitimacy and increase pressure on Chancellor Merz’s conservatives to do away with Germany’s “firewall”, an informal barrier that has been in place since the end of WW II to prevent
When Trump returned to the White House last year, it appeared he could turbocharge like-minded anti-immigration populist movements elsewhere that had struggled to gain power or respectability.
The Trump admin even formalized its efforts to cultivate an international network of
Matthias Moosdorf, an AfD member of parliament, said on X that the “ostentatious display of friendship” between Budapest and the Trump administration, including Vance’s decision to stump for Orbán, “hung like millstones around [the Hungarian leader’s] neck.” /7
To put itself in the best position to win next year’s French presidential election, the National Rally will likely try to avoid being seen as close to the Trump admin.
Across the Rhine, lawmakers from the AfD are taking a similar approach with crucial regional elections looming in September. /6
“[Orbán’s] defeat can’t just be put down to voter fatigue,” said the senior National Rally figure who, like others cited in this article, was granted anonymity to share details of private conversations. “The proximity with the US in the current context did not go down well with Hungarian voters.”
For Italian PM Meloni, Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo were a breaking point. But siding with the Holy Father was also a matter of political convenience for her given her Catholic support base and the fact Europeans are blaming #trump for the conflict in the Middle East and the rising cost of energy.
While some see advantages in keeping ties with Trump, “in the specific context of elections, that’s not a particularly promising approach,” said Torben Braga, a lawmaker with the far-right Alternative for Germany party, who sits on the foreign policy committee of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament.
suffered a bruising loss in Sunday’s parliamentary election. The contest had featured multiple endorsements from Trump and a visit in the final days by U.S. VP JD Vance. Orbán’s defeat, combined with the fallout from the war in Iran and Trump’s fight with the pope, has accelerated their retreat. /3