Trump’s spell has been broken | The US president is hurting rather than helping his ideological allies such as Nigel Farage
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Summary
Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.
In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.
Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.
The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.
Trump killing off farage would be a pleasant surprise. These assholes are like Teflon men, you would think they couldn't continue after their reputations are tarnished, but they always seem to rise again.
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Trump killing off farage would be a pleasant surprise. These assholes are like Teflon men, you would think they couldn't continue after their reputations are tarnished, but they always seem to rise again.
Worst. Vampire. Ever.
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The faster, and harder, the better it will be for EVERYONE. Well, except the rich Americans
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"You're FORCING us to respect people's rights?? Definitely authoritarianism."
Holy fucking shit. I was just thinking of that voodoo guy on ATHF yesterday and I hadn't thought of that in more than a decade. Arise chicken, arise.
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Summary
Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.
In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.
Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.
The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.
PP is distancing himself from Trump?? OK. He really just changes with the political wind. He has no convictions, ideologies, or principles that he’s willing to stand behind. He just spouts whatever he thinks will garner him votes. Canadians! Get out and vote on April 28th! We need an experienced and steady Captain at the helm for the rough waters ahead. VOTE CARNEY, VOTE CARNEY, VOTE CARNEY
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Seriously?
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DOGE gutting the goverment and randomly firing tens of thousands of people. Social Security at risk. The VA at risk. The Department of Education Dead. The stock market in correction territory. Consumer confidence down. People protesting at Tesla stores. Massive crowds showing up for AOC and Sanders. At war with our allies as we randomly deport people and fall into facism.
Checks approval polling for Trump - 49%
The stuff you mentioned only matters if people know how to vote in their own best interest, and they don't. All the Tesla protesters and the AOC crowds likely voted Democrat anyways. Nobody's mind has changed.
I think that can start to change in the coming months. On April 2 Trump's full tariffs are going into effect. There will be a retaliatory response from the whole world. But make no mistake. If the election were held again today Trump would still win.
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Trump killing off farage would be a pleasant surprise. These assholes are like Teflon men, you would think they couldn't continue after their reputations are tarnished, but they always seem to rise again.
'Masters of the Return' like dangerous politicians, toxic influencers, child-molesters, con artists, neighbours-from-hell, serial adulterers (to give a few examples) keep recycling the same old behaviours because behind what they do is a pathology, a closed loop with no exit ramp, a compulsion they rarely have enough insight to acknowledge or control. How do these parasites/predators keep finding victims to exploit? Because society constantly creates a supply of new victims to use. Behind every victim there is a matching pathology, usually going back to childhood abuse or neglect, that sets them up to be abused.
Thus in a society like Britain, we have a minority of sociopaths and psychopaths (1% or less), a large group of people with sub-optimal childhood experiences (some measures might say as many as 80% have poor childhoods and thus grew up to some degree vulnerable to be exploited in adult life), that leaves very few citizens who had a good enough start in life to not become either an abuser or a victim (maybe as few as 19% or one in five of us).
What is a shock to me is that the ideal of how we should be, is actually a minority experience. Few people are what we call 'normal'. Actually, 'normal' is the exception not the rule. Our politics has not kept pace with reality. We need politics to see itself as a branch of therapeutics - see it as necessary in order to heal society. Sadly, politics is one area of life which has very few 'normal' people in it - not even one in five MPs is psychologically healthy, more than 1% are sociopaths. People like that cannot fix politics any more than they can fix their own pathologies. Starmer and his Cabinet are same as Farage and Reform, in that they are not mentally healthy and not offering the kind of politics we actually need.
If I had to guess, I'd say this level of pathology is required by capitalism and will only end if we curtail capitalism to protect ourselves i.e. capitalism harms us in childhood, we grow up exploitable, and capitalism duly exploits us - ultimately it is profitable to hurt kids. To be able to exploit people capitalism requires a supply of sociopaths, so such people are not just tolerated under capitalism but promoted into powerful positions and weaponised to exploit the rest. The good news is that just by being normal, giving your kids and others close to you a healthy, well-nurtured, psychologically normal life - being just normal humans, good mams and dads, happy kids - is actually radical politics and helps the push back against tyranny. I reckon this is one deep reason why capitalists hate stuff that promotes good human relations e.g. woke stuff, gender politics, trans rights, stuff that heals and empowers 'ordinary people' who would otherwise have just been victims. A happy child will not grow up to be anyone's doormat. That's the hidden revolution going on right now.
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In Britain our most powerful parties are competing to kiss Trump's massive arse - our Prime Minister 'likes and respects Trump'. Honestly, Starmer, get a room! Ugh! I am sick of being shamed by my politicians.
I hope Canada elects leaders who will tell Trump to get lost. You need Zelenskyy energy. You deserve it. Give 'Uncle Spam' hell, Canada!
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Summary
Donald Trump's influence on global right-wing politics is waning as his association increasingly becomes a political liability.
In the UK, Nigel Farage's popularity has dropped, with 53% of Reform Party supporters now viewing Trump unfavorably. This shift undermines Farage’s chances of political success.
Internationally, leaders like Canada’s Pierre Poilievre and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are distancing themselves from Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump's economic promises have faltered, with US growth forecasts down and stock markets struggling.
The fading appeal of Trumpism marks the end of his ideological hold on Westminster politics.
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Trump's playbook is Attack, Deny and Never Admit Defeat. This is no joke, he's not going to let reality spoil the party.
Yeah, he's a malignant narcissist. You just described their playbook. DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim/Offender. They have no accountability, they constantly blame and accuse their victims, and they absolutely NEVER apologize for their disgraceful behaviour, because it's always your fault, not theirs.
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Department of Getting Educated
How about the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too?
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Well, I hope you can afford me the benefit of the doubt when I say that my critque comes from a left leaning perspective. I see this kind of response a lot online, particularly in left leaning spaces: "the left's authoritarianism is a conservative conspiracy" with a generous helping of accusations of 'both sidesing.' I don't think those characterizations are true or helpful.
The general public in most western nations all more or less agree with the flagship policies of the left. Whether that be universal healthcare, freedom of choice, marriage equality etc. The question then becomes; why do people vote against their own beliefs? What is it about "The Left" that is so unappealing that people would rather vote for fascists?
It seems to me that the reason the left is doing so poorly in Europe and NA is because we've been hijacked by purity spirals, exacerbating our already greater proclivity to fracture. Our message is not reaching the people who would be inclined to vote for left leaning policies because it is drowned out by so much of the more authoritarian online discourse, some of which has spilled out into real life politics. That's not to mention our aversion to recognizing or admitting fault in our own movement. We're each like the proverbial frog in boiling water; complacent to the growing failings and dangers within our own movement because we've slowly become acclimatised to it.
The authoritarian tendencies of the left's flank are, in my opinion, partly to blame for some of what we are seeing unfold and my fear is that unless we can acknowledge and reign in some of that we will, as a society, continue to careen toward something considerably more awful than Trump, Le Pen, Farage, Poilievre, Meloni etc. The backlash to the backlash will compound and compound until society ruptures.
Of course it could be that I am entirely too pessimistic and the future will be bright and rosey.
I can sort of see what your saying, but I disagree that it's "left authoritarianism". Maybe I'm just an optimist lol. I can 100% agree on "purity spirals" atleast. A progressives worst enemy is another progressive at times. However. I will point out that I've only ever experienced discourse like that online. I think it comes from a good place, that people are trying desperately to push people further to the left as much as they can...an effort to "convert" people, if you will. I can see how people may see it as trying to be controlling. It's like, wherea the line though?
I think it's easier to be conservative in a sense because your allied to essentially "stop the left", but for the left it's never been about "stopping the right" it's about how to we make x,y,z better. I think we lose ourselves when other people are like 18 steps ahead, and arguing for things that are so far left that it sort of screws up any sort of core, party message.
I think the best that a progressive can do in times like these is to have humility and be humble. There's so many things that need to happen that it's impossible to have a stance or understanding on literally everything. Just because people don't protest or push for the things someone else supports or understands, doesn't mean that they aren't progressive enough.
I don't think your wrong that our messaging needs a lot of work though.
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Now if only we could.
Learning from our mistakes is obviously unamerican.
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When Trump can run an ad about giving sex changes to prisoners, to then place them in a female prison, you realize there needs to be a shift towards what the average person actually wants.
Inclusively is nice, but we instead have a guy dismantling everything.
Trump claimed "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" live on national TV and it didn't make a difference, he could run an ad about Democrats being void monsters from beyond the abyss and the average person would go with it.
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In Britain our most powerful parties are competing to kiss Trump's massive arse - our Prime Minister 'likes and respects Trump'. Honestly, Starmer, get a room! Ugh! I am sick of being shamed by my politicians.
I hope Canada elects leaders who will tell Trump to get lost. You need Zelenskyy energy. You deserve it. Give 'Uncle Spam' hell, Canada!
Man starmer is such a disappointment... I was so happy for my British cousins when you finally voted out the Tories, but it seems like there's barely any change in the policies or even just vibe..
