• Aceticon
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    2 years ago

    Actually Trump was great at delaying the rise of the alt-right in other countries even though tons of money from the likes of the Koch brothers was being thrown at it.

    During his presidency Trump really changed the perception of America from “A great nation” to “A large backwards nation”, at least here in Europe, which in turn means that people are far less likely to want to emulate it. You will notice, for example, that all those crazy American alt-right fads like the anti-mask and anti-vax manias didn’t manage to cross the Atlantic all that well (though some countries in Latin America, such as Brasil which at the time also had a far-right president, did copy some).

    Don’t get me wrong, Europe is also suffering the consequences of the American Economic Policies that it copied pre-Trump (from Reaganism all the way to how the 2008 Crash was handled) and hence the fall in quality of life and fall in median worker incomes has made the ground fertile for simple ideologies blaming everything on “outsiders”, hence the rise of the alt-right, but even it is not at all following the molds of the Trumpist version of it (the closest to it are the Tories in the UK and even they aren’t going anti-LGBTA or obcessing about wokishness even though they too have the relentless propaganda of Murdoch’s media empire).

    Biden’s pro-Zionist Genocide posture is just doing the same, only that is mainly amongst the young and more well educated.