European Right Rejoices in Trump Triumph

Right-wing populist leaders throughout the West have spent several days praising Donald Trump’s election to the presidency.

Trump’s victory only confirms that the wave of nationalist-populist feeling that propelled right-wing parties to the fore of European politics over the last two years is a Western world phenomenon.

“Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built.”

“This is the second day of a historic event, in which Western civilization appears to successfully break free from the confines of an ideology,” Hungarian President Viktor Orban said Thursday at a conference organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

“We are living in the days where what we call liberal non-democracy — in which we lived for the past 20 years — ends, and we can return to real democracy,” Orban said.

Orban has been an outspoken critic of globalization, mass Muslim migration into Europe, and the oligarchic liberalism peddled by the E.U. He was also one of the only world leaders to effectively endorse Trump’s candidacy. “Congratulations. What great news. Democracy is still alive,” Orbán posted on Facebook the day of the election.

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Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Front National, was equally thrilled with Trump’s win. “Congratulations to the new President of the US, Donald Trump, and the American people – free!” she tweeted on Tuesday.

“Americans … have rejected the status quo,” Le Pen said in an official statement Wednesday. “They showed, through a decision which surprised those who believe situations are immutable that the world moves, that the world changes, and that movement is part of the life of nations,” she said.

“What happened last night was not the end of the world — it was the end of a world. Americans have been given the president they chose and not the one that a settled system wanted to make them validate, as if elections were nothing but a formality to satisfy appearances and conveniences.”

Le Pen’s deputy, Florian Philippot, was even more succinct. “Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built,” he tweeted.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, was equally excited by Trump’s win. “A historic victory! A revolution!” Wilders tweed on Tuesday as the results became clear. “We will return our country to the Dutch!”

“America regained its national sovereignty, its identity,” Wilders elaborated during an interview with RT on Wednesday. “It reclaimed its own democracy — that’s why I called it a revolution, and I think that the people of America, as in Europe, feel insulted by all the politicians that ignore the real problems,” Wilders said.

“What I call the patriotic spring will have had an enormous incentive. The lesson for the Europeans is look at America — what America can do we can do as well,” said Wilders.

“The political Left and the lofty Establishment have been punished by the voters,” echoed Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Austria’s right-wing populist FPÖ party. “Americans have chosen a new beginning free of corruption and sleaze. This is a historic chance,” tweeted Frauke Petry, leader of Germany’s AfD Party.

The leaders of Europe’s patriotic Right clearly recognize Trump’s victory for what it truly is — the triumph of the common man over a distant, disdainful Establishment elite — and not the triumph of bigotry the liberal chattering classes would have the world believe.

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“The political revolution of 2016 is that in two massive campaigns the underdogs beat the Establishment,” Nigel Farage said on Wednesday. “We did in Brexit and Trump did it last night in the USA — and that’s despite the commentators, the media, the established politicians,” he said. “In the Republican Party, most senior Republicans didn’t even back Donald Trump — yet he did it.”

However, the exuberance of Europe’s patriotic, pro-Western parties stands in stark contrast to the horror of the European globalists. “It was a heavy shock when I saw the way things are heading,” Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told German broadcaster ARD. Von der Leyen was having such a hard time coming to terms with Trump’s victory that she insisted it was “not a vote for him but rather against Washington.”