For European populists, Trump is a mixed blessing – politico

But should they?

It is easy to see why they think that everything is inevitable: in the United States, Trump won a decisive electoral victory, winning the popular vote and bringing the Democrats aside in all swing states. Now Maga is endemic; Trump and his best friend Elon Musk demolish government agencies; And the congress has so far left them. The courts are holding for the moment, but for how long?

Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, the right -wing populists and the national conservatives made serious breakthroughs during the European elections last summer. Admittedly, it was not the enormous increase that the populists predicted: the voters still supported the centrist, and the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen was able to sing the “center that holds” – although it was not a guarantee that she will do it next time.

Right’s nationalist parties also allowed national level here. Seven EU member countries – Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia – now have populist governments or coalition partners. And during the German elections in February, the extreme right alternative for the German party doubled its support for voters at 20.8%, making it the second larger force in the Bundestag.

Trump, of course, was supposed to give this additional populist wave, inaugurating a new Maga nationalist transatlantic project – or at least his international bed companions. But Canada’s next legislative elections may have to hinder this triumphalism.

A few months ago, no one would have given the Liberal Party of Canada a chance to win. After a decade of power, the liberal government watched the workshop and, in the midst of a housing crisis in the cost of living and affordable, public support fell from a cliff.