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Summary

Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.

In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.

Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.

The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Jon Stewart made a joke about how dems keep saying the right-wing “fever” is going to break. He showed clips all the way back to Obama.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I'm willing to bet that they get a "2nd wind", where some kind of tipping-point removes obstacles to their dismantling of our world's civilization..

It was Richard Stutely's book "The Definitive Business Plan" which identified that there is ONE thing that startups & businesses planning a market-expansion NEVER do:

understand the opponent's countermeasures.

Is anybody looking into the right-wing discussions, to see how they are going to rally/adapt/evolve?

XOR is this just "looking at the foam on the sea & making pronouncements on the rip-current's 'not' existing"?


Further, there is a tipping-point crossed, in the US, whereby it's irreversible: there simply is no way for the US to get back into representative-republic territory, now: too much got dismantled, already, & it isn't slowing-down.

In Europe, they're still working-on getting that far, right?

& the Heritage Foundation, the original puppetmasters designing Trump's whole operation..

https://www.project2025.observer/

( that tracks their breathtaking accomplishment-speed )

now working on Europe..

https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

that is about their plan to dismantle the EU for themselves..

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/

for 1 window into what their plans are.


Do the anti-fascist-"society" forces within the countries outside of the US have enough pragmatism, enough objectivity, enough uprightness, to resist the Combined Arms ( attacking from ALL angles possible, until the opponent fails ) assaulting of the far-right, for their converting-the-Western-world-to-a-bunch-of-Russias-owned/ruled-by-them??

.. I am not betting on it, tbh.

Responsibility & accountability are both their enemies, but both responsibility & accountability are the enemies of .. ALL political-entities??

Politics itself opposes responsibility & accountability, doesn't it?

Which sets the underlying problem thus:

IF politics opposes both responsibility & accountability, because it wasnt ONLY authority-on-others,

AND ALL the political-factions are working to have political-authority-on-others,

THEN .. how the hell could anybody get what political-motivation doesn't want, accountability & responsibility, to be the core of any political-"answer"??

The political basis for any countermeasure hamstrings its trueness-of-aim!


To me, this identifies that politics, itself, has to be removed from ruling our world: its nature won't allow the integrity required to keep us alive, during The Great Filter, when political-tantrum, religious-tantrum, ClimatePunctuation, food-chain-degradation/collapse, panic-migrations, totalitarianism, etc, all vie for being the "ruler" of the world, while we try to NOT face our own unconscious-mind's bulling-ignorance ( which created this whole mess, & which would rather kill us completely-off than force-grow-up ).

Find 1 country which has the integrity to remove political-motivation with successful machiavellianism, from being significant in its representatives' government..

I don't believe there is 1 on this world.

Yet it would require a majority-of-NATO to do exactly that kind of thing, to survive what's gradually blowing-up-in-our-faces..

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah lets hope this effect is seen nationally as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Small PP isn't distancing himself from Trump, he's just lying about it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I just don't get it. He could have used the Defense Production Act to lower prices of eggs and he would have been a HERO to the working class idiots that voted for him. He would have ensured that no Democrat ever wins another election. Instead he was like, "Y'all are about to be poor for awhile while I do the dumbest shit you've ever seen. Watch this shit. Fuck your egg prices, I'm going to pretend to steal Canada, Greenland, and Panama City Beach or some shit."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's assuming he's even considering that there will be future elections. Or at least elections in which the oligarchs have a chance of losing (I'm still betting Trump plans on living forever and never ceding power because narcissist).

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Yup. In several countries, including my own (Portugal), the 'far right' who tends to repeat Trump's talking points is raising red flags all over.

Poilievre in Canada, Farage in the UK, the whole AfD/Musk/Vance debacle in Germany, and so on. And many of these parties were gaining strong traction with each election. Now Trump's image association with them might as well be a radioactive label.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope you're right, but I'm not convinced we can draw conclusions yet. Starmer's government is not popular and while Farage has been a joke at home among many, he never drops out of the picture because he has a lot of international far-right support and consequently a lot of money. Brexit was obviously stupid and happened; giving Farage power would be similarly stupid and I'm not sure it couldn't still happen. In Germany the AfD is still too strong, though not quite as strong as it had hoped. In Canada I hope people have finally seen through Poilievre, but again Canada underestimates the Trumpist/convoy/PP people at its peril, and while Carney is sending a lot of good messages the kind of liiberalism he represents has not traditionally done well in holding off the fascists.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

All the stupid fuck had to do was lock the clocks, ending the time change.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Glad the rest of the world is learning from our mistake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

America needs to fail for humanity to succeed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's weird, because there's inarguably been a 'vibe shift' away from the more authoritarian side of progressive ideas and politics, and for a while it seemed the backlash was unstoppable and far-right. I hope we are starting to see a 'vibe shift' away from the extremes of the right, too. It can't be healthy for a society to swing from one extreme to the other. I suppose social media, and the difficulty with communicating nuance on such platforms is partly, maybe wholly, to blame.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I'm sorry, but what "authoritarian side of progressive ideas and politics" are you talking about? I'm a progressive (not a tankie), and genuinely have no idea what you might be talking about. Most everything that people have wanted passed is protecting individual rights and liberties for everyone...not just white men.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"You're FORCING us to respect people's rights?? Definitely authoritarianism."

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