The far-right party is most popular by far: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/france/
The majority of second-round polling has the far right winning the next presidency in France, potentially even by a landslide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2027_F...
For that reason, it's rather ironic to me when I see Europeans rally around Macron. France is poised to rug-pull Europe. Sorry guys.
BTW, guess which party is most popular in the UK? It's not particularly close: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/
At least AfD is merely a very close #2 in Germany: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/
Europe is sleepwalking.
Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) has had ties with the Kremlin for a long time. That alone should have discredited this party a long time ago, but no, it is ranking as high as ever, even after russia's overt invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Mélenchon's far-left "France Insoumise" party ranks very high too, and is similarly pro-russian, anti-EU, anti-NATO.
In the town where I live, more than half the votes have gone to the RN these past elections. I often feel like a Cassandra.
Because you do know that Labour in the UK won a landslide victory a year ago and the last date for holding a new general election is in 2029.
The Scandinavian experience is that these parties crash as soon as they get to real power and have to compromise. Suddenly they had to be responsible.
If we do see these Trumpian parties win the majority in these elections in more rather than one-offs then we have a problem. But you're just fearmongering because you can't accept how completely wacko Trump is and need to blame it on "everyone does it!!!".
So what happened in Hungary, or Italy, or other examples mentioned by troad?
Are you aware that RN, at this very moment, has by far the most seats of any party in the French parliament? Those far-right sentiments didn't magically disappear on election day.
>The Scandinavian experience is that these parties crash as soon as they get to real power and have to compromise. Suddenly they had to be responsible.
>If we do see these Trumpian parties win the majority in these elections in more rather than one-offs then we have a problem.
The "majority" comparison is meaningless in this context because the US only has support for two parties. (Imagine Germany had a contest between AfD and Die Linke only. That's akin to the situation in the US right now.) "Governing coalitions" aren't really formed here, so the notion of "they get to real power and have to compromise" doesn't exist in the same way.
So: Even assuming we grant your argument, Trump's power in the US has more to do with quirks of our political system than something fundamental about American culture.
>you can't accept how completely wacko Trump is
I never said he wasn't completely wacko. I simply said he doesn't personify the US any more than Biden does.
And the Social Democrats has been the largest party in Sweden since the early 1900s. Given that the left, with all parties combined, haven't held a majority since 2006 while managing to rule with a minority government from 2014 to 2022.
You make a lot of noise for understanding quite little.
Yes. The US has a broken political system, and you the American people haven't done jack shit to fix it.
> So: Even assuming we grant your argument, Trump's power in the US has more to do with quirks of our political system than something fundamental about American culture.
Trumps power in the US is entirely because he is what the American psyche wants or tolerates.
You keep attempting to dodge the outcome and blame it on everyone else. But you need to own it.
Trump is personifying America, which is quite evident given how he has won twice. The American people wants him.
Yes, Orban says nothing about Europe. It says plenty about Hungary though. Europe not being a country, and the EU being very heavily decentralised, that makes sense.
Hungary is literally in Europe. If Orban says nothing about Europe, then nothing can ever say anything about Europe.
Your country is choosing to stay in a union with Orban's. If EU membership is meaningless, as you imply, it should be easy for your country to quit in order to make a point about Hungary.
so are the Vatican and Andorra and Belarus, so all of Europe is theocratic and/or a kleptocracy?
> Your country is choosing to stay in a union with Orban's
Because the benefits far outweigh the association with that pigshit, who will also die some day. Also, the EU can and does exert influence over countries, so some of Orban's excesses can be curbed.
All of the places we're discussing are part of Europe, so insofar as any place can be said to "say something about" Europe, each says something about it.
>Because the benefits far outweigh the association with that pigshit, who will also die some day. Also, the EU can and does exert influence over countries, so some of Orban's excesses can be curbed.
One could make similar arguments for staying in the US. Trump is 79; Orban is 62.
Understand why your argument is a very poor one? If not, I have 46 more of these examples.
We're meant to believe that the 49%-to-48% election of Trump is some deep window into the eternal American psyche, but Orban's fifteen-year drive into corrupt, racist autocracy, endorsed by the voters at every turn, is just some sort of very temporary oopsie that says nothing at all about Europe.
When Meloni uses her pulpit as a popular Italian prime minister to attack gay families, you don't see anyone claiming this reflects the bullying nature of the Italian people, but that's par for the course for coverage of Americans and Trump. Swathes of Poland declaring themselves "gay free zones" is an aberration from European values, whereas anything that happens in deepest Alabama is the truest reflection of the American spirit.
It's mere hypocrisy.