Meet the European ‘Deplorables’

Hillary Clinton has built her campaign around the premise that opposition to mass migration and globalization are inherent reflections of racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and hate.

“You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables,'” Clinton said. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”

“For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton.”

Unfortunately for Clinton, should she be elected to the White House, she will find herself sharing the world stage with a veritable panier international de deplorables. Across every corner of Europe, the winds of change are blowing in a decidedly anti-globalist, anti-mass-migration direction.

The following are just some of those “deplorables” with whom Clinton will have to smile and shake hands and make nice at international events and global summits.

Name: Marine Le Pen
Country: France

Le Pen is the leader of the Front National Party, which she brought from the fringe to the very center of French politics. The party came in first place in the last two regional elections in France, and a majority of current opinion polls suggest Le Pen would easily lead the first round of the upcoming 2017 presidential elections.

Le Pen has not only spoken in favor of Donald Trump’s candidacy, but has also been highly critical of Hillary Clinton. “I would choose Donald Trump,” Le Pen told the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles in July. “What appeals to Americans is that he is a man free from Wall Street, from markets, and from financial lobbies and even from his own party,” she said. As for Clinton, “for France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton. Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war. Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability,” Le Pen said in an interview with CNN in August.

Name: Viktor Orban
Country: Hungary

Orban is the current prime minister of Hungary and head of the Fidesz Party. He is an outspoken critic of the E.U.’s migration policies, globalism, and liberalism, as well as a staunch defender of Europe’s Christian character. “We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law. We won’t let them push their bitter fruits of the E.U.’s cosmopolitan immigration policy. We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia,” he said in March, referring to mass Muslim migration.

“We shouldn’t forget that the people who are coming here grew up in a different religion and represent a completely different culture. Most are not Christian, but Muslim … That is an important question, because Europe and European culture have Christian roots,” Orban wrote in an op-ed in September 2015. The prime minister has also spoken favorably about Trump. “I listened to the candidate and I must tell you he made three proposals to combat terrorism. And as a European I could have hardly articulated better what Europe needs,” he said in July.

Name: Beata Szydło
Country: Poland

Szydło is the current prime minister of Poland and vice-chairman of the Law and Justice Party, a staunchly Catholic, socially conservative political party. Law and Justice swept to power in the 2015 elections amidst increasing concern in Poland about mass Muslim migration and the progressive liberalism espoused by the E.U.

In the wake of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels in March, Szydło firmly closed the door on the possibility of Poland taking in any more Muslim refugees. “We must put an end to terrorism in Europe. We must not be afraid,” Szydło said. “After what happened in Brussels yesterday, it’s not possible right now to say that we’re OK with accepting any number of migrants at all. I will be very clear: At the moment, I don’t see a possibility for migrants to come to Poland,” she told Polish reporters.

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Name: Geert Wilders
Country: The Netherlands

Wilders, founder and head of the Party for Freedom, has built his movement almost entirely on opposition to mass Muslim migration and the E.U. While the Netherlands currently has a liberal, center-right government, the upcoming 2017 elections could see that change. The last Dutch national election, which saw Wilder’s party come in third, was in 2012 — well before the migrant crisis unleashed hordes of Muslims upon Europe.

The migrant crisis, along with the E.U.’s increasingly transparent opposition to national democracy, has greatly increased anti-E.U. feeling in the country, and indeed Wilders has called for the Netherlands to exit the E.U. — “Nexit” — following the U.K. vote to do the same. Wilders’ party is currently leading most Dutch polls. He has also been an outspoken supporter of Trump, and even attended this year’s Republican National Convention. “I hope [Donald Trump] will be the next U.S. president. Good for America, good for Europe. We need brave leaders,” he tweeted in December 2015 after Trump announced his Muslim migration policy.