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Bull From the Bully Pulpit
There is a Worldwide Pandemic of Hatred and Fear
Boris Johnson has much more in common with Donald Trump than weird hair and disregard for the truth. Vladimir Putin had a position on Brexit and an opportunity to sway the election on Brexit that may hurt the British economy, but the larger game afoot is the destruction of the European Union. The time line for that destruction is very long. After all, look how long it took for Western Europe to unite; separating them will naturally take a lot of subversive work.
Marine Le Pen may have lost a French election but the alarm over immigrants and the demand for lower taxes assure that there will be a rematch. Perhaps with different faces; perhaps not. Le Pen’s party got a loan from a Russian bank in the amount of nine million euros back when the Russian annexation of Crimea caused an immediate need for European friends.
In The Netherlands, Thierry Baudet is advancing the flags of xenophobia and authoritarianism carried this far by Geert Wilders. Baudet’s supporters won stunning victories in the spring elections.
After Mr. Trump defaulted the United States, leadership of the so-called Free World fell on Germany’s Angela Merkel. Her party then began to lose seats in the Bundestag to the same alleged populism, with the common driving force of fearing immigrants.
