Alabama election result seen as 'miracle' in a Europe horrified by Trump (The miracle of Alabama!)
Alabama election result seen as ‘miracle’ in a Europe horrified by Trump
By Rick Noack December 13 at 12:51 PM
BERLIN — Roy Moore’s defeat in the Tuesday special election may have come as a relief to liberal Americans, but in Europe it was taken as a sign that the United States has not totally lost its moral compass.
The 2016 election victory of President Trump, who is deeply unpopular across Western Europe, appears to have severely damaged the United States’ status as a role model in Europe. Democrat Doug Jones's victory over Moore, a Republican — who was dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls decades ago — in Alabama's special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat was interpreted by many in Europe as a reversal for Trump and a sign that all is not lost across the Atlantic.
In Europe, the Alabama election result was widely seen as a “notable setback for President Donald Trump,” in the words of France’s liberal Liberation newspaper. Its center-left competitor Le Monde declared the result a “referendum about Trump’s political agenda,” and Britain’s Financial Times agreed that it was “a big blow for Mr Trump.”
That sentiment was perhaps most pronounced in Germany, where confidence in Trump has been even lower than in France and Britain. The center-left German weekly Die Zeit framed the defeat as “the miracle of Alabama.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/13/alabama-election-result-seen-as-miracle-in-a-europe-horrified-by-trump/
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