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Written by Cathryn Cluver,This article is part of special inauguration series by Dūcō experts on major global issues in the Trump Administration.
As Donald Trump begins his term as President, he can claim victory in more ways than one: Not only was he able to secure the electoral college majority, but Trumpism is already having a significant impact on the stability of democracies an ocean away.
Already emboldened by the Brexit vote in June, the election of “an outsider” as President of the world’s oldest democracy has given particularly core Europe’s right-wing populist parties a rather vainglorious halo. These three—France’s Marine LePen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, and Germany’s Frauke Petry—stand to create a political environment which could ultimately eclipse the European project. All in 2017, the same year in which the Union plans to celebrate its very founding with the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The European Union can survive Brexit. Frexit—Marine LePen’s goal in her planned referendum on EU membership—would be Europe’s death knell.
As Donald Trump begins his term as President, he can claim victory in more ways than one: Not only was he able to secure the electoral college majority, but Trumpism is already having a significant impact on the stability of democracies an ocean away.
Already emboldened by the Brexit vote in June, the election of “an outsider” as President of the world’s oldest democracy has given particularly core Europe’s right-wing populist parties a rather vainglorious halo. These three—France’s Marine LePen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, and Germany’s Frauke Petry—stand to create a political environment which could ultimately eclipse the European project. All in 2017, the same year in which the Union plans to celebrate its very founding with the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The European Union can survive Brexit. Frexit—Marine LePen’s goal in her planned referendum on EU membership—would be Europe’s death knell.
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Tying the rise of Trump in the US with the far right parties in western Europe makes a giant leap of credibility. The US has as its problems the sustainment of healthcare to the masses alongside crippling costs, illegal immigrants absconding with social services intended for the home grown impoverished, and the sustainment of national defense with its escalating costs. Europe has many ancillary problems, including those of the US, but its very existence as a national union is on the brink. Mr. Trump speaks in tones with a bombastic nature that irritates many but was elected to be president for the next 4 years. The Netherlands, France, Germany, and other EU nations have pending elections with the future of the EU at stake. The US & its European allies have troubling political scenes at the moment but any similarities with talking heads candidates are sketchy at best and non-existent at worst.
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