Europas extreme Rechte wendet sich gegen Trump

Isaac Stanley-Becker: “A decade ago, Trump’s election seemed to open a trapdoor in democracy and reveal a realistic path to power for populist movements all over the world. Globalization was showing its ugly side, and voters were noticing. International institutions were creaking under the weight of mass migration; in their place, nationalism seemed poised for a comeback. People like [the far-right Danish politician Morten] Messerschmidt, but also Marine Le Pen in France and Alice Weidel in Germany, looked at America and thought, *It can happen here.* To speed the process, they even adopted Trump’s language: *woke, witch hunt, fake news.*

“These same politicians are now distancing themselves from Trump. Even Nigel Farage, the Trump-loving leader of the poll-topping Reform UK Party, argued recently that Britain should stay out of Trump’s war in Iran. The European far right identified with Trump’s blood-and-soil vision of ‘America First’ but wants nothing to do with version 2.0, which justifies spilling blood in the Middle East, seizing a leader in Latin America, and expropriating the frigid soil of Greenland. The schism shows how difficult it is to stitch together an international movement of nationalist parties, especially when the standard-bearer is acting like a global bully. As one U.S. diplomat put it to me, ‘MAGA elites badly misunderstand the European far right.’

“It’s not for lack of trying. Consider Trump’s stated ambitions. He disemboweled USAID and defunded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based on claims that U.S.-funded programs were exerting improper ideological influence in foreign countries—even inciting so-called color revolutions, popular uprisings to install Western-style democracies in post-Soviet countries. He and his allies then went about doing the inverse, backing far-right movements and parties bent on undermining liberal democracy in Europe and playing nice with Russia. J. D. Vance used his first high-profile address to world leaders, at the Munich Security Conference last year, to tell European governments to stop marginalizing the far right. The administration’s national-security strategy identified as a priority ‘cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.’

“So far, this attempt at inverse color revolutions has failed. I went to Denmark to see why.”  

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Which way are they facing with their hands over their heads… All the while their pockets are being filled…HMMMMM