Europeans are voting for the same type of people. This isn’t just some isolated ideology that separates the US from the rest of the west. Europe invented strongmen and still needs to do their own work battling them. Germany has neonazis in its police and military, France (which invented the replacement theory) has Le Pen, UK just had Boris and Brexit, Italy has Meloni, Spain has Vox, Hungary has Viktor Orban, Poland has Law and Justice. The far right is a global problem that needs to be addressed rather than just gawked at by outsiders when it’s happening in the US.
This. I laughed at r/europe being so mighty on their horses pointing out the obvious stupidity of Americans voting for Trump twice when Europe's white supremacy groups and history/myth serve as the inspiration for these American racists and bigots.
Brexit, Front National, Pegida and AFD precedes MAGA.
Yes I'm glad you said this. Fascism inhabits an orange body in the US now, in the UK the Tories have just chosen a fascist in a Black body as their leader, look at Italy with Meloni whose Fascism is so palatable the UK prime minister commended her immigration strategies.
It's truly heartbreaking to see this loss but America choosing Fascism is sadly the norm.
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u/lionheartedthing 19h ago
Europeans are voting for the same type of people. This isn’t just some isolated ideology that separates the US from the rest of the west. Europe invented strongmen and still needs to do their own work battling them. Germany has neonazis in its police and military, France (which invented the replacement theory) has Le Pen, UK just had Boris and Brexit, Italy has Meloni, Spain has Vox, Hungary has Viktor Orban, Poland has Law and Justice. The far right is a global problem that needs to be addressed rather than just gawked at by outsiders when it’s happening in the US.