There are plenty of people in Europe who are buying what Trump is selling; they’re just not part of the ruling class, so you don’t hear much about them. From Victor Davis Hanson at amgreatness.com:
In an address to the World Economic Forum, President Trump criticized Europe’s regulatory and environmental policies, advocating for U.S.-led free-market capitalism to enhance Western prosperity.
President Trump recently gave a video talk to the World Economic Forum (WEF) assemblage in Davos.
He expressed fondness for Europe. He praised many for their attendance—and then tore into the evils of hyperregulation, high taxes, radical environmentalism, and the DEI/ESG commissariat of both the prior Biden administration and indeed the European Union.
One might have thought the attendees’ heads would have exploded when Trump referred to oil as “liquid gold.” And he topped that by referring to the venerated Green New Deal as the “Green New Scam.”
“I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal—I call it the ‘Green New Scam,’ withdrew from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord, and ended the insane and costly electric vehicle mandate.”
But then a strange thing happened.
The questions from international bankers and financiers that followed were not all that critical. In fact, one could characterize them as curious and carefully encouraging.
So, what prompts the polite European reception to such green and economic heresy?
A careful hearing of Trump’s entire speech would reveal it was not confrontational as much as aspirational. He was trying to envision a new European partnership—albeit one under American leadership.
“Under our leadership, America is back and open for business . . . So, you know I’m trying to be constructive because I love Europe. I love the countries of Europe.”
The U.S. economy has grown to nearly twice the size of the European Union’s since its inception more than two decades ago. Indeed, over 20 years, the gross domestic product of both was roughly comparable.
They (EU) don’t want to rule over a commie wasteland?
Haben sie das North American union?
O/T-While looking through a music spindle I found two videos of the short lived Naked Women’s Wrestling League (NWWL) with Carmen Electra and Jimmy Hart!
Is this a great country or what.