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The stench of Trump will doom Europe's far right

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https://inews.co.uk/opinion/stench-trump-doom-europes-far-right-4313911
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zaparthes Mar 25, 2026 +313
Let's hope so. So our suffering to the abuses and corruption of this deviant, reprobate tyrant should not be in vain...
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honey_hiss_halo Mar 25, 2026 +108
Honestly, it feel like the whole world is just watching this train wreck and hoping it doesn’t jump the track into their yard. It’s wild that it takes a total disaster in one country to make other people realize that "strongman" politics is usually just a scam.
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zaparthes Mar 25, 2026 +71
Seriously. I mean, c'mon, read some f****** history, people.
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Ghost_of_Akina Mar 25, 2026 +23
This - most of us knew this before the election. Well... almost most of us I guess. Just under half if the polls are to be believed.
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zaparthes Mar 25, 2026 +32
The trouble is, Americans are increasingly disdainful or even suspicious of actual knowledge and expertise.
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Ghost_of_Akina Mar 25, 2026 +22
You don't have to tell ME! I live in FLORIDA!
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +9
Sure, for the ones who voted for Trump. There's still 70 million of us that voted Kamala and saw this bullshit coming. We had warned everyone for YEARS.
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zaparthes Mar 25, 2026 +6
Absolutely true. It was completely obvious to me that Trump was a scumbag back in the 1990s, when I first heard about him.
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fnordal Mar 25, 2026 +6
That is a self solving problem, usually. Gas and electricity need knowledge and expertise
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trib76 Mar 25, 2026 +8
I know it's comforting to think that close to 50% of adults in the US are sane, but it's not true in any way, shape or form. It's actually 30%. 32% actively voted for Trump and 38% lived through his first term and decided they couldn't be bothered voting against it in the last election. 70% of eligible voters are rotten to the core.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +1
I just hope the rest of the world understands that 70m of us voted Kamala and to not write us off along with the MAGA crazies.
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snorbflock Mar 25, 2026 +18
A bunch of countries had close calls with the far right over the last year or two. Canada for one example seemed to have its conservative candidate lose all momentum once Trump got into office and started pissing off the rest of the world.
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zaparthes Mar 25, 2026 +4
It gives me hope.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +7
Canada isn't innocent. If Trump hadn't happened, Pierre would have won in a historic landslide. Just cuz they got cold feet doesn't mean they weren't dumb enough to consider Pierre.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 +2
"A historic landslide"? Please elaborate.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +6
Poillevre was polling to have perhaps one of the biggest conservative super majorities in Canadian history. Canada was practically all-in on voting him in until Trump happened. Just because some maple MAGAs changed their mind at the last minute doesn't change the fact they were fully supporting fascism up til that point.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 +2
He was never polling to have a historic super majority.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +4
Yes he fkng was lmao.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 +1
In one sentence you say that as fact, in another you say "just because some maple MAGA's changed their mind." So how many maple MAGA's are up here if he was going to win this "super majority"?
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Lastcaressmedown138 Mar 25, 2026 +2
How anyone ever viewed him as an “alpha” is ridiculous.. draft dodging, soft handed, rich p**** .
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JuanEpsteinUEA Mar 25, 2026 +25
There is going to be an epic post-nut clarity when Trump dies. Like a rancid fog being lifted. You know how it's impossible to find a vocal Bush/Iraq war supporter now (even though they were f****** *everywhere* 20 years ago)? Trump is going to be that x10.
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zaparthes Mar 25, 2026 +21
Honestly, we're going need something somewhere between South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Nuremberg Trials.
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Cancel_Culture_Club Mar 25, 2026 +11
Along with denazification and reconstruction part 2. 
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z900r Mar 25, 2026 +6
In my view, Biden should have made sure that the January 6 attack was properly processed publicly in some arrangement like that.
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ragingreaver Mar 26, 2026 +1
Biden not handling J6 and leaving it up to Congress and the DOJ alone, was the worst possible mistake he could have made. But the second worst mistake was thinking he could manage a second term.
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Available-Low-2428 Mar 25, 2026 +6
I f****** hope so.  6 years to ago I thought that would’ve happened already but this cult is barely cracking 
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SunshineCat Mar 25, 2026 +1
He'll only officially be called a pedophile, rapist, and scammer after he dies. Because otherwise we'd be punishing someone born rich, which has become unAmerican among degraded and servile Americans. His children will probably somehow be given a bunch of our money for their pain and suffering, too.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +1
70 million of us already knew how chaotic this would be. We warned everyone. We already have our clarity.
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JamonDanger Mar 25, 2026 +5
Our train wreck helped Canada and Australia out of their train-wreck, that’s my silver lining. That’s the only f****** one. I’m tired of this F****** GOD DAMN SHIT
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The_Lost_Jedi Mar 25, 2026 +3
Certainly worked in Canada at least.
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Cathlem Mar 25, 2026 +5
At least some form of good would come out of this f****** torment. We never should have had to go through this, but if it warns other nations away from going down this same path, at least that's something.
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theipaper Mar 25, 2026 +35
Whatever [Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link) touches, he destroys. It can be people, institutions or ideas – the result is always the same. His empty smile beckons them in, but his handshake has the taint of death. We’ve seen him ruin the reputation of countless Republicans. We’ve seen him degrade and destroy American constitutional standards and legal integrity. Now, in the [Middle East](https://inews.co.uk/topic/middle-east?ico=in-line_link), he is destroying the US’s reputation abroad. What was once a great military power looks weak, ineffectual, isolated and insane. In Europe, we are seeing that process play out electorally, with the parties which associated themselves with the US President. The right wing leaders who lined up to worship at his throne are now facing the consequences. This is not the narrative we’ve been sold. We’re told that liberal democracy is buckling. Presidents and prime ministers wait in line to pay fealty to Trump, the goblin king of a dark new world order. The White House pumps money and political support to hard-right figures in Europe, aiming to undermine the European Union (EU) from within. And for a while, things really did seem to be following that pattern. In the 2024 European Parliament elections, pro-EU liberal parties suffered losses while anti-EU populist right parties made gains. In the Czech Republic last year, a populist-right government took power. In Poland, the populist-right candidate Karol Nawrocki secured the presidency. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally led in the polls. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was biting at the heels of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Then Trump launched the war in Iran and things began to change. The first hint came earlier this month in Spain, during regional elections in Castilla y León. The governing Socialist party was expected to suffer a humiliating defeat, having recently been battered in Extremadura and Aragón. Exit polls suggested it would face its worst result in the region since elections were first held in 1983. But Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez enjoyed one under-appreciated quality. He is an outspoken opponent of the US President. In the wake of the war and with fears of a consequent rise in fuel prices, the party made this a key part of the campaign. It consequently defied the polls and picked up two seats. The ultra-nationalist Vox party, which supported the war, had been expected to perform strongly. Instead, it came in under expectations. In France, the far-right National Rally was expected to use its inevitable triumph in municipal elections this week as proof-of-concept for an attempt to win the presidential election next year. And in certain areas, the party performed well, taking smaller southern cities and towns such as Carcassonne, Menton and Cagnes-sur-Mer. But it failed to secure the chief prize. Marseille, France’s second-largest city, stayed in the hands of the Socialist party. Nor could it secure other key targets, like Toulon or Nîmes. French President Emmanuel Macron managed to consolidate his position in Bordeaux and centrist alliances were bolstered in places like Toulouse and Angers. In Italy, Trump ally [Giorgia Meloni seemed unassailable just days ago](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trump-turned-favourite-european-woman-against-him-4290226?ico=in-line_link). As part of her effort to entrench her control of the country, the Italian Prime Minister initiated a referendum on reform of the judiciary, which she brands left-wing and politicised – a friend of “immigrants, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers”. Everyone expected her to win. Instead, she was humiliated.
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theipaper Mar 25, 2026 +33
Her proposals were rejected by 54 per cent on a high turnout. The result was particularly brutal in the major cities: Rome, Milan and Naples. This was not just about judicial reform. It was treated as a public vote of confidence in her leadership. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. Opposition parties have a newfound sense of momentum and energy. In Slovenia, right-winger Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party looked likely to unseat Prime Minister Robert Golob’s liberal Freedom Movement. This would have ushered in a dangerous new moment for the EU, with another fierce anti-European leader able to team up with Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Instead, Golob managed to hold on, clinging to power and halting the populist wave. This week’s elections in Denmark saw Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left Social Democrats suffer a brutal and humbling result, but not the existential one which she had once feared. Her party has been under fire on numerous fronts, facing viable challenges from the left and right. Then Trump came along with his threats to invade Greenland. Frederiksen’s opposition to the US President saw her surge in the polls and prompted her to hold a snap election. That gamble ultimately paid off – just about. She emerged battered and bruised but with a viable path to retaining power for a third term. We can’t be overly optimistic here. It’s not like populism is about to recede. Most of these results are tight and tenuous. Each of them takes place amid countless domestic factors, making it hard to extrapolate a single lesson. But the rise of populism is predicated on a sense of inevitability, on the notion that you simply cannot stop its inexorable advance. The results this week show that this is false. The populists’ connection to Trump, which they embraced so confidently in 2025, has proved to be a vulnerability in 2026. You can even see that in the UK, [with Nigel Farage’s Reform](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/nigel-farage-painfully-out-of-his-depth-4305974?ico=in-line_link) falling in the polls and Keir Starmer acting like he has a spring in his step. The really pivotal battle for Europe takes place next month, on 12 April, when Orban stands for re-election in Hungary. He is the heart of European right wing populism. For decades now, he has taken control of his country’s civic life and strangled its freedom of speech. He has worked to undermine the EU from within. He has worked diligently to neutralise efforts to challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has served as the European lodestar to Trump’s White House. Now, the polls suggest he can be beaten. The global populist right has thrown everything they can at it to keep him in power. Trump is issuing daily endorsements. Le Pen, Meloni and even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have piled in to help him. They all know. They recognise the danger. If Orban is brought down, people will see just how vulnerable the far right project truly is. They will realise that it is beatable. This week showed it. And with any luck, next month’s Hungarian elections will prove it. Trump kills everything he touches. Hopefully, that will include the global far right movement, which he leads.
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ElysiumSprouts Mar 25, 2026 +53
At least there's a silver lining to America's suffering. We're fighting them over here so you don't have to fight them over there...
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BPhiloSkinner Mar 25, 2026 +13
The fight against one, is the fight against all. None of these vicious clowns stand alone (Saurons in their own minds) but are will-they nil-they dependent upon the others like them; for trade, alliances -transactional and transient as they are- and ...validation.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +10
Yeah I wish Europeans would understand this. They keep shit talking us like they're better than us, but they don't realize that what us Americans are fighting is going to prevent it from leeching into the world. They need to have some appreciation for what we are doing for the world.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 +2
What is that exactly? That you are doing for the world.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +2
Fighting fascism openly enough that it doesn't spread to other countries. We are sacrificing our stability to basically signal to the world that they don't want this. We are taking that bullet for you all. Something to consider the next time you think about saying Americans "aren't doing anything."
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GustenGrodkuk Mar 25, 2026
This is just poorly camouflaged American exceptionalism. How are you fighting again? Except Iran and brown people in your country, of course. American fascism seems to thrive, so I’m wondering if you might need to change tactics.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +5
There have been people getting shot dead in the streets for no reason and you're acting like we aren't fighting? Piss off.
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GustenGrodkuk Mar 25, 2026
How many? Around two? Because I’m comparing to the Iranian people who had roughly 40000 killed fighting their regime. Your not taking the bullet for us, you are the bullet.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +5
Whether it's two people or 40,000, a loss of life is still a loss of life. Losses that shouldn't have happened.
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GustenGrodkuk Mar 25, 2026 -6
Of course it is, but 40000 dead says something about the ferocity the Iranian people are fighting with. You are claiming that you are fighting. Can you send me a link to a large scale protest against the war in Iran?
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +3
No Kings last year had the largest turnout in US history and the next one is this weekend, set to be even bigger. There's your proof.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 -2
Sorry I am a bit confused. You are "taking a bullet" by continuing to vote the GOP in power?
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 -2
Taking a bullet by sacrificing our wellbeing by showing the world how damaging fascism is. We are basically the sacrificial lamb to message to the world to not let fascism win. You're welcome.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 -2
As the world suffers (worldwide oil prices, tariffs) Ya thanks!
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026
We can't exactly stop trumps war, idk what you expect us to do about that. I'm just saying, we are basically martyring ourselves as a warning to the world not to follow in our footsteps.
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IllustriousEnd6544 Mar 25, 2026 +4
Martying yourselves? You put yourselves (and the rest of the world) in this mess!
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +2
Yes and we signalled to the world to not let fascists win. The sacrifices Americans have been making have caused many countries to turn against the right wing parties trying to grab power. That's a net benefit. It's worth considering before you people say Americans are "lazy."
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thistimelineisweird Mar 25, 2026 +43
I have often theorized that the rise of fascism globally has been hit real hard thanks to this cult leader. Decades of work for a conman to r*** little kids his way into ruining it. The US will suffer. But maybe the rest of the world will do better.
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drobits Mar 25, 2026 +40
Canada was starting to lean more conservative until Trump started a trade war with them and threatening their sovereignty. Ruined any chance of conservatives winning there. I’ll never understand how his cult in the US doesn’t see what the rest of the world does.
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fluffHead_0919 Mar 25, 2026 +18
There is literally no reasoning with anyone who still supports this.
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meltdown_popcorn Mar 25, 2026 +12
He was masterfully interwoven into their identity of performative patriotism, Christian nationalism, "your body our choice", and racial superiority. There was no way for them to reject him without looking like the enemy (other US citizens).
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733t_sec Mar 25, 2026 +6
Also the propaganda networks. Fox News, Facebook, Twitter after it got taken over, Youtube algorithm manipulation, etc. It happens in every country but the US has the most money and so a ton of it was targeted at the US citizenry and like most mass exposure market campaigns it worked.
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ChatterBaux Mar 25, 2026 +2
Propaganda does do a lot of heavy-lifting, but at a certain point, it's just willful ignorance and incuriosity on their part. A lot of these people still have the capacity to scrutinize and criticize everyone else.
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733t_sec Mar 26, 2026 +1
> A lot of these people still have the capacity to scrutinize and criticize everyone else. They don't, what they see is what they're told to see.
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thistimelineisweird Mar 25, 2026 +11
It feels pretty safe to assume that every country has some percentage of the population that will vote for right-wing stupidity no matter what. In the US, that seems to be about 35% of eligible voters. The trick is reminding the other 65% (or wherever the math falls elsewhere) that these people are really, really stupid and, more importantly, vote every single time. I'd be curious if voters were actually becoming more right-wing or if everyone else was just becoming apathetic or basing their preference on single-issue policy. I suspect that the latter outweighs the former. People perhaps just woke the f*** up to the fact that crazy can still win.
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The_Lost_Jedi Mar 25, 2026 +4
Part of the problem is that too many people in the US just blithely ignored what was going on, and treated Trump like he was just any other normal politician. They ignored the warnings about how he's different/bad/etc, and just voted under the assumption that he was inherently fine because he was a candidate, that is, thinking that surely anyone who got to that point was vetted/okay/etc, or that there would be someone, somewhere, who'd enforce the laws/consequences/etc without realizing that THEY were the ones who were supposed to be doing that, too.
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thistimelineisweird Mar 25, 2026 +3
Oh I'm with you there. That falls in the apathy voter column. I think that's what's waking people up- like oh f*** no we don't actually want this. It's not changing right wing minds. Those people will forever be stupid and unredeemable. It's changing everyone else's who otherwise may not vote for reasons. Right wing fascism wins when everyone else stops paying attention.
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SunshineCat Mar 25, 2026 +2
The government itself acted like it was business as usual. Biden did, Democrats did. The FBI and DOG did, entire agencies we pay for that should have been imprisoning people from sedition, from violence-espousing redneck groups to Trump himself.
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The_Lost_Jedi Mar 25, 2026 +2
Part of the problem was though that there simply wasn't public support for the sort of extreme measures that you suggest. I mean, f***, people couldn't be arsed to *vote*, but you seem to think the public would be okay with Biden and the Democrats seizing emergency power?
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wildwalrusaur Mar 26, 2026 +1
Part of that is on the politicians We've been told some variation of "this is the most important election of our lives" pretty much every cycle for the 20 years I've been voting. It does tend to innure oneself against the claims of peril. Even if you're still inclined to agree, it's not as galvanizing the dozenth time around
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jgoble15 Mar 26, 2026 +1
I’d agree with that theory. Both sides are absolutely not the same. That said, the fact the Dem position has basically been, “Not Trump” for 10 years should tell people something about modern politics and how little the parties represent the people
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4umlurker Mar 25, 2026 +3
Yea the conservatives were basically a sure thing but in the last few months up to the election they were doomed by being too aligned with Trump and all the asinine threats of tariffs and 51st state shit. Trudeau was basically going to leave office in disgrace but those last few months did great for him image.
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SunshineCat Mar 25, 2026 +1
A lot of them have been trained and brainwashed from childhood through their devilish religion to NOT think. Only repeat. Seeing isn't in the cards for them.
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kswissreject Mar 25, 2026 +10
Makes sense, but doesn't seem like it, sadly. Italy, Japan, etc. Germany's AFD getting more and more power. Trump-adjacent all over.
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AlphaGoldblum Mar 25, 2026 +3
Japan is an interesting one to watch because while Takaichi did ride the MAGA wave to her position, their economy is now taking a severe beating thanks to the war and China is a much more visible threat because the US is focused on the ME. Not to mention how Trump was asking them to go and fight as well.   So Takaichi dancing in the White House did NOT play well back home at all, and could be indicative of the strained relationship the global right has with MAGA.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026
People don't understand that this fight Americans are fighting is actually preventing it from spreading. Europe will avoid this kind of right wing because we fought that fight for them. They need to consider this before mocking us for Trump. They need to be more considerate that we are taking this bullet for the rest of the world.
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thistimelineisweird Mar 25, 2026 +2
Most people in Europe can recognize the divide between good Americans fighting the good fight and the shitty ones who never leave and embrace it.  It's almost like most people can actually understand nuance of complex issues. I, too, can hate a country's government and the people who voted for it and still be cool AF to the other half that is normal and rational who are also paying the price for their dumb countrymen. Weird.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026
You're from Pennsylvania. I wasn't talking to you.
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z900r Mar 25, 2026 +2
> They need to be more considerate that we are taking this bullet for the rest of the world. Greetings from Finland. Sorry, but so far, Trump is president, after getting *re-elected*. You taking a bullet is just you getting shot. We'll be impressed when there is a sane administration that follows the rule of law again in the US. And not to worry, lots of people in Europe do get that a large proportion of Americans are opposed to Trump. It's not that different from European countries and our far-right parties. The Finnish one is currently in power, in a coalition with the old mainstream right-wing party, and the government is doing very badly in the polls. The next election is a year away. If it goes by the current polling results, the Social Democrats will have a pretty big win. A year is a long time in politics, so we'll see.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +1
70 million of us explicitly voted against Trump. Enough with this "ALL Americans are to blame" bullshit. I tried to avoid this mess. I'm not taking accountability for something I didn't help cause.
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z900r Mar 25, 2026 +2
> "ALL Americans are to blame" I don't think that anyone with half a brain thinks that. Still, Trump was elected twice, eight years apart, and on the second time, everyone with half a brain knew full well what he is. From a European point of view, it's clear that this is not a blip, and that it can keep happening after Trump is gone, even with 70 million people voting against it. The European countries need to be prepared for it. Thankfully Trump has certainly made it more than crystal clear, by threatening Greenland, abandoning Ukraine, and effectively declaring Nato dead.
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FantasticBicycle37 Mar 25, 2026 +15
I hope everyone appropriately associates the far right with pedophelia from now on
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JaronJervis Mar 25, 2026 +10
I sure do.
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drtolmn69 Mar 25, 2026 +11
_Maybe_ the chaos and pain will be kind of worth it if it quashes this "alt-right" cancer that's been going on for these last many years. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
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Skraelings Mar 25, 2026 +7
itll tamp it down a bit at least for a time, but evil never fully goes away.
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kummer5peck Mar 25, 2026 +5
It already happened in Canada. The Conservative Party lost what should have been an easy layup.
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DT-Sodium Mar 25, 2026 +6
I'm not sure. I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in France far-right owned medias are still praising everyone of Trump's action while the mainstream medias do very little actual analysis and doesn't report his actions in their true light. Everything is watered down, basically if you don't consume independent left-wing medias you have no idea of what is happening in the US and the disastrous consequences Trump's measures have on the American people. Another major problem is that if you don't have a good level in English, you simply cannot hear how stupid Trump sounds and how non-sensical his rants are, which should normally be a wake-up call for most people.
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Sublitotic Mar 25, 2026 +1
Hadn’t thought about that last bit, but then imagined I was seeing one of his comments about hurricane flooding being “very wet from the standpoint of water” in French (which I don’t know well at all) and yeah, I’d think it it was some weird but probably traditional idiom that maybe I should learn.
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Procedure_Best Mar 25, 2026 +5
His stench has doomed all directions
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MistakeHuge2955 Mar 25, 2026 +7
It doomed Canada's far right
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B-Z_B-S Mar 25, 2026 +15
Problem is, the far-right in Europe is significantly better at not seeming like comic-book supervillains than the far-right here in America. They have to be more subtle.
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Fenix42 Mar 25, 2026 +14
They where more subtle in the US at one point as well.
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B-Z_B-S Mar 25, 2026 +8
I mean, the current far-right movement here is directly descended from Nazis and the KKK, neither of whom were subtle. I guess they were more subtle for a 30-40 year period, but...yeah, maybe.
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Fenix42 Mar 25, 2026 +13
I am 45 and I grew up in a more rural part of California on the coast. People did not OPENLY admit they where part of the KKK or had any ideals that aligned with them back then. They hid it untill they thought they could trust you. They knew it was not broadly accepted. I had several people I knew "come out" to me at various points in the 90s. Turns out the rumours of still active KKK and neo Nazi groups where not rumors. Had to cut a lot of ties. Now they just say the c*** out loud. The Blackshirts have showed up a few times in that area trying to gather support.
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B-Z_B-S Mar 25, 2026 +3
People didn't openly admit that during your lifetime, but, that was already after when the KKK became disliked in America. The exact moment can be traced back to when Superman, on radio broadcast, beat up the KKK, some time in the 1950s. After that, the KKK lost a lot of popular support and was less open about what they were doing. And they *were* open about it before then. People would get their picture taken at lynchings and be smiling in it.
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Fenix42 Mar 25, 2026 +4
Yup. My parents moved to the area in the 70s. My mom was an elementary school teacher. Every Halloween at least a few kids would come to school in theor parents or grandparents KKK robes. That did not stop untill the mid 80s when the school put a stop to it finally. It never went away. It is all coming back out into the open again.
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FabiHogan Mar 25, 2026 +2
Sounds similar to Tom Metzger era Fallbrook
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12-34 Mar 25, 2026 +6
Exactly. Fascism is decidedly unsubtle. It merely has people too ignorant to notice and, with Americans, ignorance is the norm.
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JaronJervis Mar 25, 2026 +5
Well we know for a fact Trump's daddy was arrested at a Klan rally. The Pedo don't fall far from the Nazi's a******.
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z900r Mar 25, 2026 +3
You may want to take a look at the scandals the European far-right characters have been involved in, from Farage and Wilders down. They do qualify in the comic-book villain department.
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Skraelings Mar 25, 2026 +5
everyone eventually goes mask off. everyone.
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Imaginary-Ad-7919 Mar 25, 2026 +5
The stench dragging Europe’s far right down says more about the Republicans than about Trump.
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ANTILAMER13 Mar 25, 2026 +3
He sold out the U.S. He probably sold out the EU too. [Damning New Documents Obtained By Judiciary Democrats Reveal Trump Stole Classified Documents to Advance His Business Interests](https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/damning-new-documents-obtained-by-judiciary-democrats-reveal-trump-stole-classified-documents-to-advance-his-business-interests) [The letter](https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-03-24-raskin-to-bondi-doj-re-classified-docs.pdf)
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Ham_I_right Mar 25, 2026 +3
Maybe, but the cash is seemingly never ending from vile billionaires who want nothing more than complete market control and regulatory capture. Do not let off the gas from fighting these ghouls.
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not2dv8 Mar 25, 2026 +3
His stench is dooming North and South America as we speak
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today05 Mar 25, 2026 +3
If the stench of putin through orban wasnt enough… its about high effin time
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voodoodahl Mar 25, 2026 +3
It saved Canada from PP. 
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arwinda Mar 25, 2026 +5
So far the AfD in Germany is rising, even in Western Germany. Doesn't look like "stench of Trump".
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Gamera971 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Europeans are just more educated and intelligent in general. We elected a complete f****** idiot as president.
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Kink_Panda Mar 25, 2026 +5
36% approval currently, the cult is absolute and it's the same there too. "He will bring them death and they will love him for it" is what cults do.
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AstralWoman Mar 25, 2026 +2
Cloud. Silver lining, and all that. Seriously, I know some people in the UK put off Reform now because Trump. Not that Reform aren't capable of shooting themselves in the foot, tbh.
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Lurker-DaySaint Mar 25, 2026 +2
Crossing my fingers for an extinction burst for the tenth year running
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aspen0414 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Good. I hope some good will come out of this for someone. Perhaps in a decade from now his memory will have also poisoned the right in the US.
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Alternative_Rate7474 Mar 25, 2026 +2
hope so, but I doubt it
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HellaTroi Mar 25, 2026 +2
Let's hope so.
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Historical_Bend_2629 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Corruption, and bigotry, and cruelty aren’t long-term winning strategies for the vast majority of people? Who knew?
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Competitive-Bike-277 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Well,let's hope so.
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Euphoric_Protection Mar 25, 2026 +2
That would require European right wing voters to be more clever than their US counterparts. I'm not seeing this.
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AdHopeful3801 Mar 25, 2026 +2
For the sake of Europe's people, I hope so.
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Hidden_Pothos Mar 25, 2026 +2
It feels more like the effects of Trump will, in the long run, empower the right. The new wars in the Middle East will fuel an even larger immigration surge into Europe. And let's not pretend that people dont have a short memory. It might hurt the right in the short term, but it will fuel the right in Europe for generations to come, unfortunately.
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Kannibelanimal1966 Mar 25, 2026 +2
I hope you’re right. Everyone is now seeing the true nature of the right. They have always watched what they say and do in order to bullshit the electorate and get elected. And after the election there are endless numbers of voters on the right saying I didn’t vote for this. Social Security is just one of many examples.
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someMeatballs Mar 25, 2026 +2
Why didn't the stink of Putin do this already?
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Competitive_Ad291 Mar 25, 2026 +2
We can only pray it does!! It certainly impacted Canada’s elections!
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lurkylurkeroo Mar 25, 2026 +2
It already happened in Australia. The increasingly right party got historically annihilated at the last general election, in some part due to Trump (but not only, to be clear).
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EricThePerplexed Mar 26, 2026 +2
I should hope so. Praying that humanity isn't all irredeemably stupid.
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Accomplished-Run221 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Europe’s far right was the wind in the sails that helped Trump get elected right on the heels of BREXIT.
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bigt503 Mar 26, 2026 +1
I really really didn’t want to be the bad example…. But here we are….
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Zanac36532 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Let's hope so - let's hope it leaves such a shitty taste in everyone's mouth globally that the Right has to retreat into obscurity. Notably, the two women (girls?) off to the right in the picture both look more than a little scared of what Donny and the other old white men in the pic might do to them.
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hanumanCT Mar 25, 2026 +1
I dislike this creep so much, that I think my coping mechanism is wishing he is here to break things so bad and show people how dark humanity can be, that we learn our lesson to never do shit like this ever again. Hearing this gives me hope for my kids future. Listening to my maga relatives does not.
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projecto15 Mar 25, 2026 +1
I hope it does, but not holding my breath. Trump's stench post January 6 didn't deter enough voters in the US.
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JAM-n-Life Mar 25, 2026 +1
Can it also doom the two-party system as well?
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CopiousCool Mar 25, 2026 +1
As if being Far-Right isn't putrid enough
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AlkaiserSoze Mar 25, 2026 +1
One can only hope. Human civilization has come so far and overcome so very, very much. I would like to survive long enough to see us pivot to something more meaningful.
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prodigalpariah Mar 25, 2026 +1
Knowing humans, we'll pivot to something worse.
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Joe_Strubachincoscow Mar 25, 2026 +1
Has nobody there noticed the ghost of Ronald Reagan in the window
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sangdrako Mar 25, 2026 +1
The wrench of Brexit should have done that already, heck should have stopped Trump with so many parallels. It did not and unless people step up: it will not
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DarthSamwiseAtreides Mar 25, 2026 +1
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Mar 25, 2026 +1
Perhaps Europeans will be more sympathetic to the 70m Americans who voted Kamala now. We are taking this bullet, fighting this fight, in Europe's behalf so that *they* don't have to fight it in their own countries. Have a little gratitude that we are sacrificing so much for the benefit of the rest of the world.
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FaithlessnessPutrid Mar 25, 2026 +1
Taking this one for u europe. Stay safe <3
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WanderingKing Mar 25, 2026 +1
Inshallah, I can only get so erect
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-Gramsci- Mar 25, 2026 +1
Literally. Not literally “doom”… But, literally… the smell.
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popejohnsmith Mar 25, 2026 +1
Silver lining?
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deerfoot Mar 26, 2026 +1
The other silver lining is that Trumps wanton vandalism in Iran has given the biggest push to renewables ever. Many/most countries energy policy will take a sharp turn greenward right about now.
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popejohnsmith Mar 26, 2026 +1
That would please me immensely.
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espresso_martini__ Mar 25, 2026 +1
It better. We are seeing how bad it is.
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Icy-Tooth-9167 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Good
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Powermac8500 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Well well well, looks like America is saving Europe, AGAIN. You’re welcome, guys! /s Sigh. I hate it here.
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Teddy_RGB Mar 25, 2026 +1
Not a chance.
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non_Beneficial-Wind Mar 25, 2026 +1
It’ll doom anyone down wind.
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hambo31u Mar 26, 2026 +1
Good
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ntwild97 Mar 26, 2026 +1
At least the rest of the world can be repelled by him
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GarrusBueller Mar 26, 2026 +1
I really feel like Hitler should have done that but here we are.
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everything_is_bad Mar 26, 2026 +1
Only if people stand up to them
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trash-juice Mar 26, 2026 +1
To the world …. “You’re Welcome” Now we got pedos and traitors to deal with so we’ll be out of touch until we put them ALL on trial, before the world. Then we’ll go after that billionaire bank for supporting voter fraud and anything else that’ll stick - sure we’ll let ‘em off, as long as half their assets are deposited in the people’s account by closing Friday. A dream? Totally at this point - but his shit and 2025 will fall apart fast as it collapses from its own ‘weight’ and when it happens - there will be opportunities for legal reciprocity. Cheers fellow humans (nota bot here)
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eboleyn Mar 26, 2026 +1
I'm skeptical of the often claimed "the far right X will be doomed because of Y" predictions, but if true it couldn't happen to nicer people.
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thirtyone-charlie Mar 26, 2026 +1
It should all be crushed out.
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TragicallyDip Mar 26, 2026 +1
His politics are bad too.
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Shaolan91 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Huh, have you seen the result of the far right in Europe? In France alone they are conquering more terrains each election. They don't care, they never care for what's true, or the complexities. "I'm not voting for trump, I'm voting for Bardella" the score in Paris was good, but that's one of 35 000 communes. The far right is really good at pushing buttons on social media, and they understand that it's all they need to do, doesn't matter if it's from bot or not, the usa or France their voters will eat it up.
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