LONDON — Few have expressed glee at
Donald Trump’s election win
like
Europe’s far right
.
In President-elect Trump, these
ascendant insurgents across the pond
see a key ally, someone who shares their mix of authoritarianism, populism and
extreme hostility to immigration
.
“We have big plans for the future!”
posted
Hungary’s Prime Minister Vikor Orbán,
an influential Trump friend and ally
, calling it “a much needed victory for the World!”
Asked what these “plans” were, András László, a lawmaker in Orbán’s Fidesz party, told NBC News on Thursday that his leader had left it “deliberately vague.” It would broadly involve a “continuation” of their first-term partnership, he said, “to help persecuted Christians around the world, and to promote policies and solutions to stop illegal immigration.”
Trump’s
lionization of dictators
and promises to
go after his political enemies
have seen him
called a “fascist”
by two former aides and
some
experts
.
But Orbán, László and fellow party members aren’t the only ones rejoicing at the election of Trump, whom they see as a fellow traveler because of his hard-line stance on immigration and rejection of what they see as
internationalist left liberal dogma
.
The Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim firebrand who is sometimes labeled the “Dutch Trump,”
urged his Washington counterpart
to “NEVER STOP, ALWAYS KEEP FIGHTING AND WIN ELECTIONS!”
In Italy, right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has softened her approach since taking office,
heralded
the “unshakable alliance, common values and historic friendship” between Washington and Rome.
And Alice Weidel, co-chairperson of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, said the vote was a repudiation of “woke Hollywood.”
One of her lawmakers, Siegbert Droese, wished the Republican “all the best” on this “happy day” with a red MAGA cap on his desk.
The AfD is polling in second place ahead of elections likely next spring. If the party were to enter government, “you can assume that we will work excellently with a Trump administration,” Stefan Keuter, an AfD lawmaker in the German parliament and the party’s ranking member in the foreign affairs committee, told NBC News.
“We have good personal contacts with people from the Trump team,” he said, adding that the party had hosted a “large delegation” of the Young Republicans earlier this year.
The AfD is an anti-immigration, anti-Muslim political party that is being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency
for suspected extremism
— something it denies. On Wednesday, it announced it would expel three members suspected of involvement in an in militant neo-Nazi group that prosecutors said was planning an armed revolt.
Like Orbán, many of its members have an open affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the party campaigns for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine — something that could well mean concessions favorable to the Kremlin. Likewise, Trump has repeatedly spoken warmly about Putin, calling him a “genius,” and
says he would resolve Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
before he takes office.
And as well as Trump’s positions on immigration, Keuter praised the American’s war on “political correctness.”
“You are simply no longer allowed to speak the truth,” he said. “Trump doesn’t care about that at all. He states facts, and that is what we appreciate about him.”
These sentiments are not just contained to Europe.
Argentina’s far right, libertarian president, Javier Milei, told Trump he could “count on Argentina to carry out your task.” And Israel’s ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir reacted with a “Yesssss.”
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