Votes in Canada, Australia and Albania laid bare the limits to the appeal of Trump-ism as his policies sow uncertainty across the globe.
When top figures in Donald Trump’s orbit descended on a small town in southeastern Poland this week to rally support for the right-wing candidate in that country’s presidential election on Sunday, they put MAGA’s ambitions abroad on full display.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Karol Nawrocki “just as strong a leader” as Trump, declaring “he needs to to be the next president of Poland.” Matt Schlapp, chair of the pro-Trump Conservative Political Action Conference, which hosted the gathering, said electing candidates like Nawrocki is “so important to the freedom of people everywhere,” while John Eastman, who aided Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, said Poland under Nawrocki would play “a critical role in defeating [the] threat to Western civilization.”
But if the conservative confab ahead of Poland’s vote was an indication of how hard Trump’s allies have been working to expand the MAGA brand across the globe, the results of recent elections, including in Romania, Poland and Canada, suggest Trump’s influence in some cases may not be helping.
“We have a lot of political leaders here in the U.S. who are camping out in Poland to try to tilt it,” said Randy Evans, who was ambassador to Luxembourg during Trump’s first term.
Isn’t that just an open admission that they’re trying to influence a foreign election
Yep and they are doing it all over Europe. Europe, specially EU, should consider them hostile for elections interference. And I’m sure this went on on lower levels as well even before this obvious interference. Yet, nobody bats an eye 🤷♂️
When the US does it, it’s fine.
We just let them do it.
Why actually go somewhere when you can just coordinate propaganda via bots on their social media?
Because some countries have populations that do more than sit at home eating and blindly trusting whatever their screen tells them is the truth.
Like Rwanda. They listen to the radio.
True. Or in most of Europe, where it’s harder to convince people the sky is falling when they can just walk out of their front door and ask anyone on the street if that’s true.
Yes, but that somehow doesn’t change anything ever. They do horrible thing A, world is shocked about A, then they do horrible thing B, world is shocked about A+B, then they do horrible thing C, world is shocked about B+C (A has already been forgotten by that point). And so on. We don’t really have proper checks & balances in place against malicious politicians with too much power and too many loyalists in key positions. So they can do whatever and get away with a ton. I mean I thought there should be checks and balances working to correct this in any modern democracy but then again checks & balances also fail regularly in other areas, e.g. in anti-corruption or in pro data protection. Everything’s conveniently broken in some way and can be exploited. The key people from the Trump administration and/or Heritage Foundation should already be behind bars for lifetime.
Yeah, but Ukraine was never “influenced”, and don’t even think about it!
how hard Trump’s allies have been working to expand the MAGA brand across the globe,
You can’t really call it MAGA when it’s outside the USA. It’s just generic fascism.
“mooooom can we have fascism in Europe? Just a little bit?”
“we have fascism at home.”
We will see what comes out tonight in Poland. That is a very tight race, and last major hope for international trumpism in the near future.
Anti-globalists unite across the globe.
Fuckin pricks actively taking a political side inside the country at that level is disgusting.
