Trump Is Europe’s Alarm Clock

Europe today is the spoiled brat of the West. The sulky teenager who rebels against everything he’s supposed to obey, who governs from daydreams divorced from reality, and who’s forever trying to dodge responsibility. Europe reminds me of myself at 15, when I used to hide in my room playing video games just to avoid going out to buy bread. My life was pure misery: Dad always found me. Then I fell in love with the new baker. I still remember those blue eyes. My parents were astonished that I suddenly wanted to buy bread six times a day. She was drop-dead gorgeous. But that’s another story.

The United States has become Papa America. Its power is overwhelming. Every now and then, it clears its throat and says nothing at all — and even that’s enough to make Brussels tremble. If the Brussels bureaucrats had their way, we Europeans would all be zipping around on electric scooters, paying even higher taxes than the ones already bleeding us dry, munching on crickets, living in eternal lockdown, cheering for Hamas instead of Israel, and probably all identifying as transgender — if one can even draw a line between the surgeon’s scalpel and the quarterly castration of European taxes.

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The woke plan — the 2030 Agenda — is blowing up in the faces of European politicians. Farmers and ranchers have had it with the endless stream of idiotic regulations. A recent example: Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, and Greece suffered devastating forest fires this summer, with entire villages and farms reduced to ash. Rural people know why. “Until a few years ago, they let us clear the underbrush in our forests,” a friend in northwest Spain told me. “Now, thanks to the endless web of national and European environmental regulations, we’re not allowed to, especially in so-called protected areas — which is basically all of them. So when a fire starts, the whole place goes up uncontrollably. They don’t even let us graze sheep or cows in the forests anymore — the best brush-clearing method there is. And in the end, they just tell us every fire — arson, mind you — is climate change. Crooks, the lot of them.” The anger is real. If fires are blamed on climate change while arsonists keep getting arrested, then apparently “climate change” has a first and last name. Great, now we know how to take climate change down — no taxes required!

Citizens are fed up. We can’t even drive in our own cities. The middle classes refuse to be forced into electric cars. And Ursula von der Leyen and Angela Merkel’s suicidal immigration policies have turned European cities into daily crime scenes of machete and knife attacks. The elites promised us that illegal immigrants would work, contribute, and pay our pensions. Right now, we’re the ones paying them. Meanwhile, in many neighborhoods of Europe’s major cities, you can’t walk out your front door alone after 10 p.m.

The backlash is obvious: A new alternative Right has emerged that is determined to confront globalism, climate hysteria, wokeism, and illegal immigration. And, of course, to restore old-fashioned national sovereignty. These are politicians who defend their values unapologetically — something Europe’s so-called center Right, which is often more progressive than the socialists, has long failed to do.

When Donald Trump returned to the White House, things got complicated for these new parties. In countries like Germany and France, they’ve been harassed by courts and the media alike, with the old parties doing everything possible not only to block their electoral victories but to stop them from even running. Von der Leyen herself, in one of many outrageous abuses of her supposedly neutral position, has spent years threatening the parties she brands as “far-right” — sometimes called “Trumpist far-right” by the obedient press — and, even worse, threatening the voters who dare to support them in Italy, Hungary, and Spain.

Javier Milei’s victory in Argentina was a gust of fresh air for Europe’s conservatives — a blessing and an endorsement. But with Trump back, the joke is over. Europe’s elites can no longer hold their citizens hostage. The entire West is experiencing a wave of new conservatism, a return to common sense, and a reclamation of sovereignty as the guarantee of individual freedoms. Those clinging to power in Brussels can’t keep doubling down on the same destructive policies that have gutted Europe’s middle classes, families, industries, and pride — policies that have left us uprooted from a history that, just a generation ago, we celebrated, but are now told to be ashamed of.

The recent Trump–von der Leyen meeting was pure delight for those of us who always suspected that, in a previous life, the German politician from the European People’s Party had been a witch who dined by nibbling on Victorian teacups. Trump made one of the most sectarian, arrogant politicians of this century kneel like a lamb, saving her shrill anti-Trump theatrics for another day. All she lacked was throwing herself on the floor to shine his shoes — though, had she done so, Melania might have seized the chance to plant a heel in her backside. 

It’s a mistake to think Trump is hated most by Europe’s Left. The ones who truly hate him are von der Leyen and the Christian Democrats of Brussels — the so-called center Right, who in reality are just leftists dabbling in center-right cosplay. My theory: The reason these hollow, principle-free politicians so distrust Trump is that deep down they envy him. They wish they had his resolve, conviction, and, above all, ability to connect with the middle classes. 

For Europe’s Christian Democrat elites — the hundred thousand political children of the idiotic Angela Merkel — it’s intolerable that ordinary workers now despise them and instead bat their eyelashes at Trump. That’s the same reason they keep trying to cancel Giorgia Meloni, Santiago Abascal, Viktor Orbán, and Marine Le Pen. But it’s too late. The West is turning in another direction. It’s unstoppable. And Donald Trump is steering the wheel.

By Bill Wilson for The American Spectator

Europe has spent years importing all the ideological junk America’s Democrats churn out. From immigration (“No human is illegal” and other kindergarten Beatles lyrics) to climate change, Obama and Biden have exported mountains of ideological trash that Europe’s politicians embraced with enthusiasm. They called it progress and modernity — simply because it came from America. And now, the same elites want to block Europe from catching the wave of new conservatism, which in private they dismiss as pure fascism. They won’t succeed. They’re simply too stupid.

In short: Donald Trump has been Europe’s alarm clock. Under Joe Biden, the entire European Commission drifted in a deep, hypnotic sleep, lulled by the former president’s soporific powers. Trump barged into their nursery armed with a bass drum and three cymbals, crashing away as loudly as Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, jolting the politicians into finally working for the citizens they’re supposed to serve.

We will win. As much as it pains me — given my incurable addiction to humility — I have to admit I’m always right these days. And we will win.

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