The MAGA leader is unpopular in Europe, even among the supporters of right-wing populist parties he sees as allies, according to the new POLITICO Poll in partnership with Public First, which surveyed more than 10,000 people across five countries earlier this month. His biggest fans are in Britain, where 50 percent of Reform-aligned respondents had favorable views of Trump. However, in France and Germany, only about a third of people who said they had supported right-wing parties reported seeing Trump in a favorable light.
The poll findings come after the Trump administration rolled out a new national security strategy aimed at cultivating the “growing influence of patriotic European parties,” which have drawn increasing support in France, Germany and the U.K., though they haven’t yet translated that into electoral wins.
The new POLITICO Poll data offers a potential warning to right-wing populist parties trying to attract broader support while also getting closer to Trump, as people who said they would support such parties in a new vote were more negative about Trump than those who supported them in the past across the U.K., France and Germany.
Not saying the trend isn’t real, but a 10,000 participant poll has a crazy P-value for determining populist trends. I would expect a poll of 50,000 to have a more accurate mark. Still, it’s good news that the fascists are just as divided.
I thought this was funny because it sounds like Politico is giving advice to Europe’s right wing. I know, they probably are.
You don’t say?
Having ties to trump backfired terribly with the Conservative Party in Canada’s last election. People held their nose and re-voted in the unpopular incumbent Liberal party. Even the French Canadians changed their voting patterns just to avoid the Conservatives.
Nobody is particularly happy with the resulting leader, but Jesus just look at the kind of stuff we may have avoided.
