8/11/2024–|Last updated: 11/8/202401:34 PM (Mecca time)
Although 11 weeks are still separating Donald Trump from assuming the presidency next January, his style and tactics have already leaked across the Atlantic Ocean for some time, and there is a shake-up in European politics, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper says that Trump – in the eyes of the European continent – is not just a politician who turned the American elections upside down and reshaped Republican Party To glorify and glorify his personality, and to undermine Washington’s traditional alliances, rather, he is a vector of infection, as he represents a “dangerous role model” for aspiring European leaders.
It cited examples of European politicians who resemble Trump in many ways. In Britain, right-wing Kemi Badenoch – of Nigerian origin – described as extremist (42 years old) won the presidency. Conservative Party.
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Although she does not resemble Trump in shape or appearance, and her parents are from the Yoruba ethnicity in West Africa, and she spent most of her childhood in Nigeria, she can be compared to a large extent to the American president-elect.
In her election campaign last month for the leadership of her party, Badenoch attacked pro-diversity, pro-immigration policies and the “bureaucratic class” in Britain.
She said that up to 10% of British civil servants should be in prison for matters such as “incitement,” which the Washington Post considered an emulation of Trump’s style of disdain for the so-called deep state.
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In Germany, the “Alternative for Germany“The far-right extremist, and one of its leaders, was criminally charged for bouts of extremism linked to Nazism.
The American newspaper pointed out that the European left, too, is not immune to Trump’s influence. In Paris, he heard Jean-Luc Mélenchon party leaderProud France“The leftist movement this year echoes his rejection of the results of the previous elections in 2020.
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Mélenchon attacked the new right-wing government, describing it as illegitimate, given that his leftist bloc had occupied first place in the parliamentary elections and had the right to form the government.
According to the newspaper, the American president-elect is very hated in Europe, as he is innately hostile to the old continent, and has always believed that NATO (NATOIt provides the Europeans with American security cover at the expense of American taxpayers.
The fear and contempt that Trump arouses may not have a significant impact on the imitators who greatly admire his personality, as he – in the newspaper’s opinion – is admired by “illiberal and fanatical” leaders such as Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary, Robert Fico in Slovakia, and the Dutchman. Geert Wilders.
The Washington Post goes on to say that the European people may “despise” Trump, but many of their leaders are likely to seek to appease him, but the danger of the spread of the “Trumpism” phenomenon remains in Europe.
