Condi Rice said it long ago, when she was Secretary of State under Bush: “Europe’s values are not our values.” We should stop pretending that they are like us. They are not. Their antiTrumpism, for example, is merely a distraction to keep from their own people the fact that collectively, Europe is a basket case—economically, politically, culturally. And that they have done it to themselves.
Most Americans still have more in common culturally and ethically with a middle class Englishman or German than they do with their fellow so-called US citizens throwing gang signs in the inner city or speaking garbled Spanglish in the barrio.
While the Eurocrats in Brussels are a malignant influence, right wing nationalist movements in Europe (such as Fidesz in Hungary, AfD in Germany) deserve our support.