I am convinced that Europe\u2019s \u2018new right\u2019 is a radically contemporary movement. Defeating it means understanding its critique of liberalism<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
European governments are terrified of Donald Trump\u2019s threats on trade, Greenland and the future of Nato. But the biggest threat is not that Trump invades an ally or leaves Europe at the mercy of Russia. It is that his ideological movement could transform Europe from the inside.<\/p>\n
A year after Trump\u2019s return to the White House, his \u201csecond American revolution<\/a>\u201d is radiating outward into Europe. The Epstein files reveal how this began clumsily in 2018 with Steve Bannon<\/a>; but it has become a much more sophisticated partnership with the second coming of Trump and the rise to power of JD Vance. The US National Security Strategy<\/a> published by the White House in November<\/a> called for strengthening the growing influence of \u201cpatriotic\u201d European parties such as Reform UK, Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD), Marine Le Pen\u2019s Rassemblement National<\/a> (RN), Fidesz in Hungary<\/a> and Vox in Spain<\/a>. As with the communist movements of the cold war, these nationalist, populist and in some cases far-right parties are best understood not as isolated national phenomena but as expressions of a shared intellectual project \u2013 a movement that is, to varying degrees, now being reinforced by a foreign power.<\/p>\n Mark Leonard is the author of the report The new right: anatomy of a global political revolution<\/a>. He is director of the Berlin-based European Council on Foreign Relations<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am convinced that Europe\u2019s \u2018new right\u2019 is a radically contemporary movement. Defeating it means understanding its critique of liberalism European governments are terrified of Donald Trump\u2019s threats on trade, Greenland and the future of Nato. But the biggest threat is not that Trump invades an ally or leaves Europe at the mercy of Russia. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}