Tag: Far Right

“Red Rabbits”

With the success of the DSA in receent elections and the freak out the Right is having I thought this would be an interesting post.

This is a group within the Democratic Socialists of America….and this is an article doing it’s best hatchet job on this idea by DSA.

The NY Post is how lies get started…..it is a strong Far Right rag and this is the best hatchet job they could do…

 

https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/opinion/socialist-red-rabbits-are-training-for-national-uprising-against-cops/

 

Total lies!  Total bullshit!

Sorry but I refuse to give any validity to their BS other than the link so my reader can see for themselves.

I will continue to post the crap the Right wing media has to say about the rise of the more progressive candidates….these lies are nothing new they have been around since the 1920s.

But this is from the horse’s mouth so to speak)….

https://www.dsausa.org/blog/walk-rabbit-walk-protecting-the-left-nonviolently/

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Germany Steps into The Past

Recently Germany held it selections and there is a trend in Europe for Far Right parties to gain support and Germany was no different.

Conservative and right-wing parties emerged on top. The mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its partner, the Christian Social Union (CSU), finished first with 28.6 percent of the vote, while the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged into second with 20.8 percent, according to provisional results announced by election authorities.

Germany voters made a change at the top on Sunday, delivering a victory to centrist conservatives in the parliamentary elections and giving the far right its best result since World War II. Friedrich Merz, who’s now in position to become the nation’s chancellor, declared victory minutes after the first projection based on exit polls was released, Politico Europe reports. “We must now quickly regain our ability to act so that we can do the right thing at home, so that we are once again present in Europe,” Merz said, “so that the world can see that Germany is being governed reliably again.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounced the support for Alternative for Germany, and President Trump celebrated the election results.

Exit polls—which have been historically accurate in Germany—had Merz’s Union bloc running at about 29% and Alternative for Germany around 20%, which is double the anti-immigrant party’s showing in 2021. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats polled about 16%, per the AP, and the Green Party 13.5%. Scholz conceded Sunday, telling supporters “this is a bitter election result.” And he decried the fact that “an extreme right-wing party like the AfD is getting such election results. That must never be something that we will accept. I will not accept it and never will.” On social media, Trump proclaimed it a “great day for Germany.”

Merz’s Christian Democrats will need to partner with at least one party to form a governing coalition. He could end up partnering with small parties, per the New York Times.
Merz had said he’d refuse to work with AfD, as had Scholz and other party leaders. Parts of the AfD’s organization are considered extremist by German intelligence agencies. The party’s second-place finish will shake the continent, at least, per Politico; Germany is the most powerful nation in Europe. Despite Merz’s position, Alice Weidel, the AfD’s candidate for chancellor whose supporters include Elon Musk, said she would consider forming a coalition with the winning party. “We will hound the others to make sensible policies for our country,” she said.

Merz has to build a coalition to govern and that may not be as easy as it sounds.

Reuters reports that Merz will face “complex and lengthy coalition negotiations” to form a government. His bloc took around 29% of the vote. AfD doubled its share of the vote, coming second with around 20.5%, but other parties generally refuse to work with AfD as part of a longstanding “firewall” against the far right, meaning Merz may have to govern as part of a three-party coalition. The center-left Social Democratic Party is considered the most likely coalition partner, CNBC reports.

Is the past bleeding into Germany’s future?

This sounds very familiar to anyone that has a grasp on history.

He is not a big fan of Trump and he is worried about the future of NATO….

Later this year, a NATO summit will be held — but he suggested Europe may need to devise a new defense structure to replace it.

“I am very curious to see how we are heading toward the NATO summit at the end of June,” he said. “Whether we will still be talking about NATO in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defense capability much more quickly.”

(politico.eu)

 

Hungaryfication Of The US

Most everyone that follows politics knows how much Trump admires the mini dictator of Hungary, Orban….he has even envisioned what would be nice for the US under his dynamic leadership…..let’s call it Hungaryfication by trump…..

This is an article I recently bookmarked for further review….

Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA or SS beating up opponents. Nor are there people rounded up and put in concentration camps or being tortured in a Pinochet-style football station.

There will be no Auschwitz in the USA. And, there weren’t even political assassinations under Trump’s first presidency (2017-2021) even though Trump’s far right presidency ended with a coup d‘état like storming of Capitol Hill which resulted in five deaths.

Perhaps, today’s fascism no longer comes in goose-steps. In fact, it may not come at all. Beyond all that, Donald Trump also lacks virtually all key ingredients of fascism.

Still, what Donald Trump might create is an even more sinister version of an anti-democratic far right populist regime.

Instead of outright fascism, Donald Trump is more likely to follow the rule book of Hungarian semi-dictator Viktor Orbán and his far right Fidesz party. Orbán’s right-wing populism created an autocratic and illiberal regime in which democracy became merely a facade.

Outward, it appears as if Hungary is still a democracy. Hungary has formal elections. Meanwhile, inwardly it shows all elements of a far right dictatorship in which democracy’s separation of powers – as outlined by Montesquieu – no longer exists and elections are downgraded to a manipulated process to certify Orbán’s authoritarian rule.

In short, Hungary’s parliament has been reduced to an appendage of Orbán’s right-wing populist party. Meanwhile, the previously independent judiciary and the legal system are under control of Orbán’s far right state.

Yet, there is more. Hungary’s crypto-democratic framework is concocted in such a way that it gives an awe-inspiring advantage to Orbán’s right-wing Fidesz party. In other words, democracy takes place but Orbán’s system ensures that his party wins

The Hungaryfication of the USA

Change is coming…..and change will not be for the betterment of the nation….in my opinion.

All we can do is when we smell shit then say something.

I will do my part…..will you?

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Is Trump A Fascist?

I am sorry but I have had lots on my mind today so I have not written anything but this article should do to stir up some reactions.

I know, I know…..this is one subject that has been batted around for years but the question is still unanswered….definitively.

Supporters say no….that it is only sour grapes that has people saying such stuff…..opponents point to words and speeches and actions as proof that he is leaning far Right….which is accurate?

This is a well written article from the Guardian and I give it here to see if people will actually pay attention or stick to their shallow thinking.

****Please read the article and comment on the validity of the work not some half baked belief that is rambling around in that mind of yours.****

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/21/is-donald-trump-a-fascist

The piece is well worth the read whether you agree or not.

And now if you have any thing to add….

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A “Great Replacement Theory”

It is time to call a spade a spade.

There has been lots of typing trying to explain what is happening in this country politically….some of it is detailed and in-depth but there is a simpler explanation.

Donald Trump made clear on the Philadelphia debate stage this week, as he has throughout his three presidential campaigns, the basis of his run for office. Trump is running on the platform that non-white immigration is an existential threat to the nation. This time around, Trump has made his primary message, the so-called Great Replacement Theory(GRT), more vivid than ever. It is therefore of existential importance in understanding the stakes of this election to have clearly in mind what has happened in the past when GRT has been the central driving narrative both of individuals and of states.

According to the Great Replacement Theory, the nation’s greatness, its traditions and its practitioners, are existentially imperiled by an influx of foreign races, ethnicities or religions. The foreign elements are sometimes described in the narrative of GRT, as vermin or diseases. 

GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-called “Black Horror on the Rhine.” In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:

It was and is the Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master.

With the benefit of hindsight, the idea that Jews betrayed Germany in World War I in order to use the occupying French army to bring Black Senegalese soldiers in to ruin the white race by rape and race mixing seems utterly unhinged. It is hard to fathom that this crazed conspiracy theory justified for many Germans the mass murder of two out of every three of Europe’s Jews. But our descendants will also find it hard to understand why so many Americans find Trump’s claims that non-white immigrants to the United States are savages who eat pets, criminally insane murderers and drugs dealers who nevertheless somehow manage to get it together to vote fraudulently en masse in election to be plausible. In both cases, the bizarre nature of these claims stands in stark contrast to their obvious political power.

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/13/donald-is-openly-running-a-great-replacement-theory-campaign/

All this is nothing new…..I recall when the boat people were arriving in the 70s a story locally was that pets were being eaten by them and that Vietnam had sent us criminals….any of that sound familiar?

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Does Another ‘Shutdown” Loom?

It is that time again….time for the drama and theatrics to begin again for the approaching funding to keep the government up and running….in other words the threat of a ‘shutdown’ is coming.

Here we go again…..but this time it is a bit different….the Far Right is trying desperately to impose the policies of voter suppression under the guise of preventing voter fraud which is a non-starter because there has never been in massive voter fraud.

The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a GOP resolution that would have punted a fight over government funding until after the next president takes office and pushed through a noxious voter suppression measure backed by Republican nominee Donald Trump.

The final vote was 202-220, with 14 Republicans joining nearly every member of the House Democratic caucus in voting against the legislation. GOP opponents of the bill included far-right lawmakers who want to slash spending.

Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine), Don Davis (D-N.C.), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) broke with their party and backed the Republican continuing resolution, which would have largely extended government funding at current levels into March.

With Trump’s backing, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) agreed to attach to the continuing resolution the SAVE Act, legislation purportedly aimed at preventing noncitizens from voting—which is already illegal. Voting rights advocates have condemned the SAVE Act as an “unnecessary and dangerous” bill that would “make it harder for voters of color and naturalized citizens to register to vote.”

House Democrats said Wednesday that the failure of the GOP continuing resolution was an inevitable consequence of the party’s decision to push extremist spending bills instead of working on a bipartisan solution to government funding.

The government will shut down on October 1 unless Congress acts. Johnson said leading up to Wednesday’s vote that there is “no Plan B.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-continuing-resolution

We are less than 10 days away from the spending deadline….will there be the usual confrontation and a deal struck hours before the deadline or will these twats get about doing what is necessary to keep this country moving?

I have no faith in either party to do what is right without the drama of a shutdown.

How about you?

Update:  As I was finishing this draft for today’s post I heard that the House came to a deal after all….

Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushing final decisions until after the November election, the AP reports. Temporary spending bills generally fund agencies at current levels, but an additional $231 million was included to bolster the Secret Service after the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump, and additional money was added to aid with the presidential transition, among other things.

Lawmakers have struggled to get to this point as the current budget year winds to a close at month’s end. At the urging of the most conservative members of his conference, House Speaker Mike Johnson had linked temporary funding with a mandate that would have compelled states to require proof of citizenship when people register to vote. But Johnson abandoned that approach to reach an agreement, even as Trump insisted there should not be a stop-gap measure without the voting requirement. Bipartisan negotiations began in earnest shortly after that, with leadership agreeing to extend funding into mid-December. That gives the current Congress the ability to fashion a full-year spending bill after the Nov. 5 election, rather than push that responsibility to the next Congress and president.

In a letter to Republican colleagues, Johnson said the budget measure would be “very narrow, bare-bones” and include “only the extensions that are absolutely necessary.” “While this is not the solution any of us prefer, it is the most prudent path forward under the present circumstances,” Johnson wrote. “As history has taught and current polling affirms, shutting the government down less than 40 days from a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice.” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would evaluate the bill in its entirety before this week’s vote, but with the agreement, “Congress is now on a bipartisan path to avoid a government shutdown that would hurt everyday Americans.”

Why was it without the drama this time?

They have an election to try and scuttle so they did not need the diversion of the spending bill to cope with.

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“High Status Males”

I have always thought that Elon Musk was pretty much a douche bag from the start of his loud mouth beginnings.

But he exceeded himself when he decided to buy Twitter and make it his personal platform for stupid. And then his idiotic endorsement of Trump just added to me dislike of this individual and it has not slowed down at all.

One of his latest moronic ramblings…..

Elon Musk has used his large platform on X to promote a theory that a free-thinking “Republic” could only exist under the decision-making of “high status males” – and women or “low T men” would not be welcome in it.

On Sunday, Musk re-posted a screenshot of the theory – which appears to have been conceived on 4chan in 2021– on the social media site.

The theory, written by an anonymous user, suggests that the only people able to think freely are “high [testostrone] alpha males” and “aneurotypical people”, and that these “high status males” should run a “Republic” that is “only for those who are free to think.”

“People who can’t defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism,” the post reads.

“Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective ‘is this true?’ filter,” it adds. “This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html

What a misogynistic prick!

This from the same egotistical a/hole that wants to send his sperm to Mars so he can populate the planet…..and this from the guy the endorsed Trump and is rewarded with the possible seat of power within a Trump admin…..

If Donald Trump wins the election, he will have a big job for Elon Musk. In a speech at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday, Trump said Musk will lead a commission that will save “trillions of dollars” in government spending. “I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” Trump said, per CNN. He said it was the “suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement.”

Musk floated the idea during a talk with Trump weeks ago, in which Trump praised him as the “greatest cutter” of employees. “I look forward to serving America if the opportunity arises,” Musk said in a post on X Thursday. “No pay, no title, no recognition is needed.” Asked by the BBC if the role had been formally agreed on, campaign adviser Brian Hughes said, “It is premature to discuss any prospective personnel in the next administration, but we welcome the enthusiasm and support of Elon Musk.”

  • Conflicts of interest. The Wall Street Journal notes that while it’s not unusual for business leaders to serve on advisory groups, the proposed role will raise many conflict-of-interest issues. Musk’s companies are regulated by numerous federal agencies and SpaceX’s biggest customers include NASA and the Pentagon. “Musk’s business interests are so broad and so intermingled with the federal government, it’s hard to imagine guardrails that could address his conflicts,” says Washington University law professor Kathleen Clark, who specializes in government ethics.

Just what this country needs a ‘purge czar’….someone that will lead the witch hunt in DC to rid people that will oppose Trump.

At what point does the idiot voter see the ludicrous ideas of Musk and his new master Trump propose?

Be Smart!

Learn Stuff!

Vote from knowledge not from social media!

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The Hack Of Heritage

First the mundane…..my visit with the doctors went well….everything okay just had to take on some new meds….Sue’s chemo dragged her out today but than that she is responding well the doctor tells us….a slow day on IST….I guess not many care what the day held for me and Sue.

It is midnight and it is 90 degrees…oh the joys of Summer in the South.

While I was surfing waiting for my doctor to call me into the inner sanctum I found a story that made me smile….

By now most people interested in the direction of this country have been exposed to the far Right crap flowing out of the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025……

Most of us that have read the ‘plan’ see it for what it is an authoritarian garb for the government and democracy….

As we say in the Souths “bless their hearts”…..I am talking about the hackers that busted into the Heritage website and lifted a bunch of info.

It looks like hacktivists have joined the fight to shine a light on Project 2025, the far-right blueprint for reshaping the government to achieve ultraconservative goals if Donald Trump is elected president in November. 

Google searches for “Project 2025” have skyrocketed in recent weeks, likely due in part to celebrities, including Taraji P. Henson at the BET Awards last month, drawing attention to the extremist plan. A group of hackers has joined the effort to pull back the curtain on Project 2025.

On Tuesday, the cybersecurity news outlet CyberScoop reported that a collective comprised of self-described “gay furry hackers” that calls itself SiegedSec gained access to Heritage Foundation data. Specifically, the collective said it gained access to a website hosting content produced by members of the Heritage Foundation, the organization that assembled Project 2025 with the help of several members of Trump’s former administration. 

Per CyberScoop:

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this fall’s election. Its authors describe it as an initiative “to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.” The data, reviewed by CyberScoop, includes Heritage Foundation blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The data was created between 2007 and November 2022. The group says it gained access to the data on July 2 and released it to provide “transparency to the public regarding who exactly is supporting heritage (sic),” a spokesperson for the group who goes by the online handle “vio” told CyberScoop in an online chat Tuesday.

A SiegedSec spokesperson who goes by “vio” told CyberScoop that the data the group accessed includes “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associated with Heritage. But a Heritage spokesperson denied that the organization was “hacked,” telling CyberScoop that “an organized group stumbled upon a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor.”

Nonetheless, Heritage folks don’t sound happy about this data dump. The Daily Dot shared excerpts of angry text messages sent from Mike Howell — a former Trump administration official and the executive director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project — to vio. Howell confirmed the authenticity of the texts to The Daily Dot via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

(msnbc)

There are even reports that Project 2025 had help from China…..let me repeat that…..Heritage had help from China on the workings of Project 2025….plus rumblings that they may be fudging with the IRS…..we will see.

I am sure more info will drop and soon but for now the Dems have been handed some ammo against the Right and their ‘plan’ to destroy our national government…..so I will be watching and waiting for the rest of the story.

I say kudos to those that did this….2 thumbs up.

Stay tuned….more to come….

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The EU’s “Freedom Caucus”?

First let me explain the “Freedom Caucus” in the US House of Representatives…..

The caucus is positioned right-wing to far-right on the political spectrum. The group takes hardline conservative positions and favors social conservatism and small government, along with right-wing populist beliefs such as opposition to immigration reform. The group sought dozens of times to repeal the Affordable Care Act Established as a more conservative alternative to the Republican Study Committee, the group initially emphasized fiscal conservatism and concerns about House rules, favoring budget cuts and a decentralization of power within the House of Representatives.

(wikipedia)

It appears that the parliament of the European Union has its own version of this far Right clusterf*ck…..headed by Hungary’s Orban…..and it is expanding….

The Party for Freedom (PVV), a Dutch far-right nationalist party, will join a new alliance of similarly like-minded parties in the European Parliament, its leader said.

Dubbed the Patriots for Europe, the alliance was recently formed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

“We are PVV patriots, we love our nation. Strong and sovereign. Resisting illegal immigration. We defend peace and freedom. And support Ukraine. We protect our Judeo-Christian heritage. And our families,” wrote PVV leader Geert Wilders on X on Friday evening.

“We want to combine forces in the EP and will proudly join Patriots For Europe!”

Wilders’ party won the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands last November. The PVV is the largest party in the new four-way right-wing coalition that was sworn in on Tuesday. Dick Schoof, the former head of the Dutch intelligence service, leads it as prime minister.

In June’s elections for the European Parliament, the PVV won six seats.

Orbán’s Fidesz party, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party and the populist Czech ANO party were the first members the Patriots for Europe alliance when it was announced late last month.

Spain’s far-right Vox and the Portuguese far-right party Chega also recently said they would join.

With Wilders’ announcement, the new group would have MEPs from six countries – membership of MEPs from at least seven countries is required for group status in the European Parliament.

So far, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has declined to join.

(nordot.app)

This is just a way for the far Right to throw a wrench into the workings of the EU.

The Freedom Caucus has about 41 members on the House (numbers are keep secret for some reason)….will these members align themselves with this up-start in the EU?

Will these people be as obstructive as the House version?

All this is scary….the rise of the Far Right cannot be good for any country.

On an upside I see the elections in France has stomped on the LePen and her group….

France’s populist, anti-immigration party appears to have been unable to repeat its success in the first round of the legislative election, with the first projections after polls closed Sunday showing left-wing and centrist parties blocking the National Rally from taking power. The final results of the runoff may vary, and could leave France in gridlock, with no party winning a majority, the Washington Post reports. Weeks of negotiations would be the next step. Just after the first projections were released, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the far-left France Unbowed called for centrist President Emmanuel Macron to invite the bloc to form a government. Macron’s office said those decisions will wait a bit.

Voters seem to have responded to calls to prevent France from having its first far-right government since World War II. That would mean Macron’s gamble in calling the election paid off, though not enough to keep him in office. “As his minority government was set to lose political support while facing a rising far right, he [counterintuitively] decided to accelerate that process as the best antidote against its full realization,” said Alberto Alemanno, a professor of European Union law in Paris. “Today’s electoral results proved him right.” A government statement Sunday said Macron “will ensure that the sovereign choice of the French people is respected,” per CNN.

At least French voters are showing some good sense……maybe the American voter will follow in their shoes.

The world needs to stop this Far Right rise as soon as possible….for the sake of the planet.

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It Is Spreading Like A Virus

In recent years the far right hate has been spreading throughout the world….especially in Europe and the US….politicians like LePen of France, Orban of Hungary and of course our own beloved Donald the Orange and now the Netherlands….Geert Wilders has been around and mouthy for years and now he has a huge victory…..

After the huge election victory of far-right leader Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, the world is paying a lot more attention to Dutch politics and the country’s alphabet soup of political parties. Wilders’ Party for Freedom—PVV—won 37 of the 150 seats in the lower house of the country’s parliament, leaving the country in what the Economist calls an “awful quandary.” Other parties have had a “cordon sanitaire” around the PVV in recent years, refusing to include the anti-Islam, anti immigration party in coalition governments, but it’s unclear whether other parties will be able to assemble a majority of at least 76 this time.

The next three biggest parties after Wednesday’s election—a Labour-GreenLeft alliance, the VVD, the NSC, and an alliance of Labour and GreenLeft parties—only have a combined 69 seats and they are “not enthusiastic about co-operating with each other,” the Economist notes. There’s a chance they could still form a coalition with one or two smaller parties, though Wilders argues that it would be undemocratic to keep his party out of government. More:

  • How the “political earthquake” happened. Cas Mudde at the Guardian blames the “political earthquake” of Wilders’ surprising victory on Mark Rutte, the outgoing VVD prime minister. Rutte and his conservative party had hoped to dominate the election by shifting focus from a dispute involving farmers to the issue of asylum seekers, but they instead created fertile ground for Wilders, Mudde writes. “If you make the elections about the issues of the far right, notably the “problem” of immigration, the far right wins,” Mudde writes.
  • Victory is
  • boost for far-right across Europe. The AP reports that the strong showing for Wilders’ party has buoyed far-right populists across Europe, putting the movement back on track after a defeat in Poland last month. Those congratulating Wilders Thursday included Hungary’s Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen. Like Wilders, who wants to see a Dutch version of Brexit, Le Pen is strongly opposed to the European Union.
  • A “middle finger against the establishment.” Rene Cuperus at the Clingendael Institute think-tank tells Reuters that proposals including leaving the EU and banning the Koran are not what attracted voters to Wilders. “It’s not an anti-Islam vote. It’s not an anti-EU vote. No, it’s more a middle finger against the establishment,” Cuperus says. “It’s an anti-establishment signal … to really warn the established parties to fix the housing market crisis and to fix migration.”
  • The “Dutch Donald Trump.” The BBC looks at the background and policies of the man sometimes called the “Dutch Donald Trump,” who has been a prominent figure in the country’s politics for more than 25 years.

Other political parties were holding separate meetings to discuss the election’s outcome before what is likely to be an arduous process of forming a new governing coalition begins Friday. To become prime minister of a country known for compromise politics, Wilders must persuade other party leaders to work with him. The party that came next to Wilders’ in the election was an alliance of the center-left Labor Party and Green Left, which was forecast to win 25 seats, and its leader, Frans Timmermans, made clear that Wilders should not count on him as a partner. However, Pieter Omtzigt, a former centrist Christian Democrat who built his own New Social Contract party in three months to take 20 seats, said he would always be open to talks.

I hope that if any of this is wrong then my Dutch visitors will set the record straight.

These people are like disease infecting the world.

This situation will be fascinating to watch….the rise of these hate groupies is very disturbing and smacks of the 1920’s and 30’s.

Stay Tuned!

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