The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

[marmar]

The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism
The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published May 5, 2025 9:49AM (EDT)


(Salon) Another erstwhile American ally felt the Trump effect last week in a big way.

In an upset similar to Canada's recent election, Australia voted for the incumbent Labor party against the Trump-like right-winger who led the polls in the run-up to Election Day. (In both cases, the conservative candidate even lost his own seat in the parliament.) Germany, too, just a couple of months ago, managed to beat back the far-right AfD party after Elon Musk and JD Vance stuck their noses in the campaign on its behalf.

Something is happening among America's allies, and it's a tremendous relief. For some years now, we've seen the MAGA-infused global right gaining a foothold amongst western democracies, largely driven by the same demagogic, nationalist, pseudo-populism that has fueled Donald Trump's dominance on the American right. Some countries like Hungary have served as a sort of experiment for the kind of post-democratic autocracies dreamt of by the modern right wing in which government co-opts, intimidates and de-legitimizes the political opposition to create an authoritarianism that dominates the culture and the politics without a lot of overt violence. But the rise of the far right among the Western allies seems to be stalling out.

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However, nobody else in the world signed on for what Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen are up to, and the countries most like us are making that very clear to their leadership. They have to. Whether anyone likes it or not, the U.S. is still the most powerful nation on the planet with massive economic clout, military might and a heavy influence on the global institutions it helped build over the past 80 years. Unfortunately, we have decided to put all that in the hands of an aging, incompetent, narcissistic demagogue, and having inexplicably done it twice, we lost the trust of sane people everywhere.

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That system may be fraying at the edges, and it may be time to create a new system of global security, but what Trump is doing is making everyone unsafe. By threatening to invade sovereign nations, treating foreigners in our country like criminals and seeking to dominate the world economically through his daft tariff scheme, he is making the United States into a pariah nation. ..........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/05/the-world-is-now-reversing-course-to-reject-trumpism/

[Lovie777]

1. And a lot of the world is working together and is ignoring the USA................

USA back with the isolation mode again.

[mucholderthandirt]

2. Honestly, this is what I've been hoping to see happen. Let us be a lesson to the world.

Reject this nonsense. Reject religion's influence in government. Reject the rich people's influence in government. Remove the military's ability to take over a country (though I believe it's going to happen here, for good or ill). Keep voting honest and visible.

We'll have to see how it all turns out. I hope I live long enough to see a change in humanity, I've been pretty disappointed so far.