Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has given a powerful boost to Europe’s national patriotic forces that the liberal mainstream negatively labeled as "populists" and "far-right." A meeting to engage all the European parties advocating national priorities in their countries’ political courses who call themselves "patriots of Europe" has taken place in Madrid under the motto “Make Europe Great Again!”
Among those attending were Marine Le Pen (National Front, France), Santiago Abascal (Vox Party, Spain), Viktor Orban (FIDESZ Party, Hungary), Matteo Salvini (Northern League, Italy), Geert Wilders (Freedom Party, the Netherlands), and many other politicians.
Despite Trump's extravagant (mildly put) steps in the international arena, the "right-wing" parties of Europe agree with him on issues related to traditional values, protection of national cultural and religious heritage, as well as migration policies. All of them are opposed to the "gender agenda" imposed by American liberals throughout the world, while advocating for sustained traditional families under the Christian worldview. The "far-right" intend to decisively stop migration flows to Europe from both the Middle East and Africa.
Curiously, The American New York Times had to quote statements by the summit participants to show their criticism of the American establishment. "They skewered the ‘liberal fascists’ who they said had replaced Christian civilization with ‘a sick Satanic utopia,’ the ‘creeps’ who ‘want to turn our children into trans-freaks’, and the supposed ethnic replacement of native-born Europeans by immigrants," the unenthusiastic outlet writes about the Madrid venue.
Trump is likely to cause many political and economic tsunamis worldwide. But whether he wants it or not, he has anyway triggered the upcoming change of political elites in Europe. For the European "far-right", the American president has destroyed the remaining barriers that kept their parties on the political periphery. Now the bans have been lifted. "Trump’s tornado has changed the world in just a couple of weeks,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the summit, pinpointing Europe’s drastic changes. “Yesterday we were the heretics, now we are the mainstream". Trump's election is "the last opportunity for the Western world," EP member from Greece’s "far-right" (for which read patriotic) Voice of Reason party Afroditi Latinopoulou echoed the Hungarian leader.
European bureaucrats and the current national leaders are a product of America’s liberal establishment Trump has been opposed to. Now the European bureaucracy and liberal politicians reigning in most European countries have lost support from the hegemon, while the so-called "far-right" parties get a chance to alter the continent’s entire political landscape.
At the EP election last summer, many believed that the "far-right" would gain support, but their expectations fell flat. In this regard, there were rumors of vote rigging to favor the liberal, already decaying mainstream.
Notably, a similar situation was there to see during the European Parliament election of 2019, when Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and his FIDESZ party actually headed the movement for reforming the European Union, returning local peoples to their roots, and preserving national borders.
Back then, liberals deemed Orban as a real danger, launching an outright harassment campaign against him led by George Soros himself, who even wrote an open letter to European MPs with a proposal to stop Viktor Orban, expelling FIDESZ from the European People's Party (EP’s leading one) and thus weaking the Hungarian leader’s traditionalist influence on political processes in Europe.
Today, Orban is the de facto leader of patriotic forces in Europe and Trump's actual envoy to Europe in terms of traditional values and policies of curbing the migrant flow. In this regard, everyone draws attention to the fact that Orban has been critical of the West's support for Ukraine. "Because of Brussels we are giving our money to Ukraine in a hopeless war," he says.
Meanwhile, the European "far-right" have supported Trump's policy of destroying the established Western institutions where globalist elites still prevail. For example, Matteo Salvini criticized the World Health Organization and the International Criminal Court, which Trump himself hardly favors. As you know, he has urged US withdrawal from the WHO and issued a decree imposing sanctions against ICC judges.
The Trump factor does have an impact on the political situation in Europe. Trump's victory in the US elections has given the European "far-right", that is, the patriotic parties, a long-awaited boost. However, it is safe to say that the widespread failure of the discredited liberal policy led by American Democrats on a global scale has objectively contributed to the fact that Europe’s political forefront now belongs to nationally oriented forces. They have expressed explicit opposition to those who blindly follow the liberal "values" brought to Europe from the United States, as demonstrated at the Madrid summit.
Experts are convinced that many of these parties are really popular with all the electorate segments and therefore have a chance to join their countries’ governments in the elections to come. They are sure Europe is about to change. For example, analysts in Germany believe that the early parliamentary election scheduled for February 23 will be the last one to not let the opposition traditionalist Alternative for Germany party make it into the government. The same trend can be observed throughout the whole of Europe.
