Posted on 11/17/2020 10:22:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Leftist elites in Europe are tying their fate with Democrats, becoming a natural adversary of any future Republican administration. That is a long-term mistake.
“Biden’s victory returns a recognizable, reassuring figure to the Western throne,” an Atlantic essay claims, “a restoration of the old dynastic order — a figure who will hear Europe’s petitions with respect and grace.” Europe, it appears, banked on Biden, whom it believes will deliver. At least such is the received wisdom.
Politico argued the same, saying, “For many European leaders, Biden’s win represented more than just the prayed-for end of Trump’s presidency — it was a welcome shot in the arm for Europe’s battered brand of centrist politics as it battles its own populist demons, a glimmer of hope that the ‘good guys’ can win.” Progressive centrism is apparently back, and Europe is collectively breathing a sigh of relief.
The European elite, especially those in the West and North and in charge of the institutions from Brussels to Berlin, were hoping for restoration. Suffering from a mild Electra complex, they hoped the benevolent father figure would “heal” all the “cruelties” of the past four years.
Except it cannot be further from the truth, and Europe, as always, is on the verge of learning the wrong lessons from this election result. The idea of a restorationist foreign policy with America at the helm, ruled by a political party committed to globalist liberalism, is so absurd that only a European elite class completely detached from reality can think of it.
The idea that the entirety of Europe is jubilant now that the Democrats are ostensibly back in charge will hit two roadblocks soon enough. It is mostly western European elites who prefer a Democratic government. The general population, while having a strong reaction to Trump’s persona, is overall much more ambivalent about American leadership. In fact, as a Pew report suggested a while back, on the ideological right-wing, even in western Europe, Trump’s favorability has increased.
The western European leadership class has been a leftist elite for a while. On one hand, it’s been used to a generous American tax-funded security. On the other hand, it has acted like imperial consuls from faraway lands trying to shape the politics of the capital.
The situation is different among the European populace, especially among people in eastern and central Europe. Biden’s administration will perhaps increase interference in Belarus to “promote democracy,” thereby preempting a Ukraine-type conflict, while pushing back stalwart traditional conservative allies such as Hungary and Poland. As a result, one can expect a fracturing of EU polity.
The European Union is undergoing an intense amount of scrutiny. Even within the liberal western states, France and Austria want a closed EU with better Russian relations, an independent army, and strategic independence, and scrutiny of political Islam and antagonism to Turkey. Germany, afraid of a French hegemony post-Brexit and Trump, desperately wants a restoration of the 1990s. In short, European differences in interests are back once America is retrenched.
While nominally committed to European security, Biden will still focus more on Asia. The rise of China foreordains that. His foreign policy, therefore, will neither satisfy the closed EU ideologues, such as France, nor the Atlanticists, such as Germany, while antagonizing the cultivated allies of the last four years, from Britain to eastern and central Europe.
The Euro leftists, however, depending on the Democrats for the restoration of a liberal order, refuse to see that American interests will increasingly be inward. To retrench from the Middle East after disastrous wars would naturally mean more conflict in that region and more spheres-of-influence politics between various powers such as Russia and Turkey — but that is also inevitable.
America will be foolish to stay in the Middle East, with no long-term major power threats. With a détente between the Gulf Arabs and Israel, the natural balance against Iran is also consolidated. Europe would have to concentrate on its southern flank anyway, with or without Biden; Biden, to his lone credit, was the only man in the entire Obama administration to have opposed the disastrous Libyan war.
More importantly, the European leftists, politically tying themselves up with the Democrats, view any country or party or government that prefers hierarchy, law and order, natural law and biology, and judicial conservatism to be automatically illegitimate and borderline fascist. That means Republicans are naturally antagonistic to European liberal states.
Given that Europe is fundamentally dependent on American muscle, to antagonize one whole party and ideology is the dumbest possible development since 2016 and will come back to haunt Europe the next time an even more conservative Republican president is in power, one who will have the winning combination of Trump — including social conservatism, strong law and order, and foreign policy retrenchment — minus his personal baggage.
America’s European Enemies Are Excited About A Biden Presidency
They were excited about “O’bozo” too as I remember... I wonder what Joe has been blowing in their ear
Of course they’re excited about a Biden Presidency. They’ll be back on the gravy train again.
No question!
While his leftist views coincide with theirs, think of the wonderful opportunities to blackmail him or his family or to buy him off!
Biden is an Open Borders, Anti- First Amendment, Anti- Second Amendment totalitarian globalist.
Of course Open Borders, Anti- First Amendment, Anti- Second Amendment totalitarian globalists in other countries are happy about the prospect of Biden, the Democrat Fraud Machine, and their obsequious sycophants in the Treason Media empowered.
The ruling European elites despise Trump because he won’t appease them. They know they can manipulate, if not control, Biden who shares their globalist views.
The conservatives in Europe are saying that the only thing standing between us and the barbarians is Donald Trump.
[[European Elites Are Excited About A Biden Presidency]]
Wow are they gonna fall to pieces wen he isn’t declared president-
Yurp elites are America’s enemies. It’s good that more Americans see this.
Given the massive voter fraud in this election combined with the Dems’ plan to massively increase third world influx of “refugees,” it is unlikely another Republican, let alone a genuine Trumpist conservative, will ever win again. I truly do not want to be pessimistic, but the facts are what they are.
The Democrat party of today and the European elites are one and the same political faction. The only difference is where they live.
Putin endorsed Biden so he got his wish. Of course everyone is just fine with that, after four years of baselessly calling Trump Putin’s puppet.
Given the massive voter fraud in this election combined with the Dems’ plan to massively increase third world influx of “refugees,” it is unlikely another Republican, let alone a genuine Trumpist conservative, will ever win again.
Trump has the most enthusiasm of any GOP candidate since Reagan. They stole an election from his blatantly, not even trying to hide it. When the GOP puts some hack like Marco Rubio onthe ticket next time the dems won't have to cheat but they will because they know that if they pulled it off against Trump and his legion supporters than embarassing Rubio (or whoever) will be jokingly easy.
Our system of fair elections was on the ballot and it won. The side that doesn't want fair elections, unsurprisingly, cheated and got it to stick (probably). And so goes America.
The author Sumantra Maitra, like so many self satisfied intellectual tools, claims that President Trump has “personal baggage” because he has soaked up leftist propagandist like an idiot sponge. I got news for the smart set, the people who voted for President Trump are not going anywhere and they are getting angrier by day.
The American establishment has enforced upon itself a mind-numbing, groupthink ideology that is becoming unmoored from reality. They believe Christianity is a dangerous cult and that they are above such superstition while in truth they religious fanatics belonging to a cult of earth-worshiping neopagans with a dogma based on pseudo-science and the worst ideas cobbled together from the ludicrous theories of anarchism, Marxism, and atheism. They have a worldview where facts and outcomes are irrelevant and they care not one bit for the Americans that they think are beneath them as they callously destroy them.
The average American is awakening to the fact that those that rule them despise them and are actively working to harm them. If this government violence against Americans continues and the will of the people to choose a new leadership continues to be thwarted at the ballot box by fraud then the American people will turn to the cartridge box to enforce their will on their tyrannical government.
Yes, and so goes America...heartbreakingly so.
Yes, people will like you if you give them freebies.
But how long can we afford giving out freebies?
Yep. Biden would re-enter the Paris Accords and the USA WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. Of course, Europe wants us back in.
Wet panties twist better.
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