The flip side is, there are also segments of the rural population motivated by communist nostalgia and Milos Zeman is indeed a former communist. Of course, under the USSR there were no migrants among other things...but even before the refugee crisis, nostalgia was starting to take root.
I see tendency on these boards, like with liberal global media —> to equate American political landscape to Europe’s. Not every anti-migrant that uses saucy language is necessarily a Donald Trump, nor is the party system the same in these places.
Also, sometimes so-called “centrists” end up being surprising reformers, like Emmanuel Macron of France ,who Trump has invited to be the guest at the first official White House dinner he’s hosted.
(Marine Le Pen would have been a disaster by the way. She couldn’t hold her own party together. She was too secular meaning: not just anti-Islam, but not pro-Life either. Her niece on the other hand, was a genuine Catholic, talented, but too young and taking a break from politics. Her and her aunt did not always get along either.)
My point is just because someone comes out swinging as a “far right” person doesn’t mean they are indeed “right.”
Does the former communist today’s Czech president propose to bring communism back in Czech?
No.
So what’s your point?
Just like stupid British liberals claim Brexit is little Englanders’ nostalgia for Great Britain Victorian era.
Emmanuel Macron is a reformer? Yes, it’s about French economy. And he is not as repulsive as hard left frogs, so far.
But in general, he is still a key member of the anti-Trump club.