Opinion: Trumpism isn’t going away. Europe proves it.
Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, a Spanish far-right party, waves to supporters outside party headquarters following the general election on Sunday. By Henry Olsen Henry Olsen Columnist focusing on politics, populism, and American conservative thought Email Bio Follow Columnist April 29 at 4:33 PM The center-left Socialist Worker’s Party came out on top in Sunday’s Spanish elections, but the real story was on the right.
Finland rode the populist wave in April’s elections, too. The Finns Party, a Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant party, had split in 2017 as many party activists thought its leaders had compromised too much in joining a center-right government in 2015. The hardliners won the fight to control the party, but it looked like they had lost the war when polls showed party support had declined by nearly half.
Americans genuinely concerned about our democracy need to take notice. In our past, Republicans thought the New Deal would fade after FDR’s death while Democrats thought Reagan’s stepping down would end his conservative politics. Both groups were shocked out of their complacency when their candidates lost to those presidents’ successors , proving that the message could outlast the man. The same is going to be true today: Trumpism will outlast Trump.
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