here has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent scathing criticisms of Europe’s “weak” leaders and the danger of “civilisational erasure” on the continent.
Trump has been branded anti-European. But if that was true, then surely millions of European citizens must also be considered “anti-European.” Because they are voting for political parties and supporting protest movements which make strikingly similar criticisms of the EU regime.
Take the Trump administration’s controversial new National Security Strategy, which has been condemned as a work of imperial interference in European affairs.
The document argues that “the European Union and other transnational bodies” are working to “undermine political liberty and sovereignty”; observes that Europe’s mass immigration policies “are transforming the continent and creating strife”; and identifies problems such as “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
Sound familiar? These are the sort of fundamental criticisms of the Brussels elite and their works that we commonly hear from national conservative parties across Europe. They form the basis of policies that are now supported by millions of patriots in European nations.
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