The populist right of the United States has its call cards. “Make America Great Again” of hats. A disgust for immigration. A love of tax reductions.
But a more subtle unifying thread has slipped into republican discourse for years – the one that has exploded on the world scene, with the potential to reshape the contours of alliances and redirect the flows of world trade.
Maga does not deeply like the European Union.
And the skepticism pronounced could have real consequences while Mr. Trump waged a trade war against the block – especially in the coming weeks, after American and European officials promised to “accelerate” their negotiations to conclude an agreement.
It was not only President Trump, who said that the European Union was trained to take advantage of America. Or only vice-president JD Vance, warned May Europe withdraw from its “fundamental values” during a speech in Munich this year. Or the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who A signal cat disclosed Called the “pathetic” American continental allies.
Ethics is also a pillar of right-wing television in the United States. “Europeans do not largely share our values,” said Laura Ingraham, the conservative television host, This yearciting European climatic policies that could lead society to “economic ruin”, the differences In the views of freedom of expressionand the right to carry weapons – sacrosy in America, but something non -fundamental and subject to restrictions in Europe.
He appears in conservative comments. European negotiators “move more slowly than a French snail”, a new Fox News opinion About commercial negotiations joked, before predicting that Europeans will pass commercial talks worth “we through their organic gardens and maintained without result”.
