The CDU guy who’s about to be chancellor is the classic “economically liberal, anti regulation, blame foreigners for all violence” far right who pretends he’s not far right by taking the head of a party that keeps helping the far right rhetoric, instead of straight up joining the far right party, for some reason. He’s been mad at Merkel for 20 years because she sidelined him in the party because he was too much further right. He’s not Musk, but he’s the guy who keeps making sure Musk and Trump never get shut down.
Well, then it might very well be that the effects of Trump’s policies did not manifest themselves on time to sway Germans away from the Far-Right.
Having lived through Brexit, I still very much expect that what Trump is now doing in the US will fuckup most of the Far-Right in Europe. This belief is also anchored on what we are now seeing in countries which were “ahead of the curve” in bringing the Far-Right into Government, such as Poland, who are now turning away from it as well as things like the recent, sudden and somehow unexpected growth of the (real) Leftwing reversing the trend of moving to the Right in places like Finland.
I expect that, given its much greater economic dominance, size and footprint of reporting about it in of the media space, the example of the US will be far more visible and impactful in the general population of Europe than the examples of Hungary, Poland or Finland.
The CDU guy who’s about to be chancellor is the classic “economically liberal, anti regulation, blame foreigners for all violence” far right who pretends he’s not far right by taking the head of a party that keeps helping the far right rhetoric, instead of straight up joining the far right party, for some reason. He’s been mad at Merkel for 20 years because she sidelined him in the party because he was too much further right. He’s not Musk, but he’s the guy who keeps making sure Musk and Trump never get shut down.
Well, then it might very well be that the effects of Trump’s policies did not manifest themselves on time to sway Germans away from the Far-Right.
Having lived through Brexit, I still very much expect that what Trump is now doing in the US will fuckup most of the Far-Right in Europe. This belief is also anchored on what we are now seeing in countries which were “ahead of the curve” in bringing the Far-Right into Government, such as Poland, who are now turning away from it as well as things like the recent, sudden and somehow unexpected growth of the (real) Leftwing reversing the trend of moving to the Right in places like Finland.
I expect that, given its much greater economic dominance, size and footprint of reporting about it in of the media space, the example of the US will be far more visible and impactful in the general population of Europe than the examples of Hungary, Poland or Finland.