Contrary to the impression given in Brussels, the peoples of Europe do not need any malign American interference by Trump to turn them against their leaders

There has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent scathing criticisms of Europe’s “weak” leaders and the danger of “civilisational erasure” on the continent 

writes Mick Hume at The European Conservative (merci à Vincent Bourdonneau), where he points out that Europeans May Not Love Trump—but Many Agree With Him.

Trump has been branded anti-European. But if that was true, then surely millions of European citizens must also be considered “anti-European.” Because they are voting for political parties and supporting protest movements which make strikingly similar criticisms of the EU regime.

Take the Trump administration’s controversial new National Security Strategy, which has been condemned as a work of imperial interference in European affairs.  

The document argues that “the European Union and other transnational bodies” are working to “undermine political liberty and sovereignty”; observes that Europe’s mass immigration policies “are transforming the continent and creating strife”; and identifies problems such as “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”

Sound familiar? These are the sort of fundamental criticisms of the Brussels elite and their works that we commonly hear from national conservative parties across Europe. They form the basis of policies that are now supported by millions of patriots in European nations.

Contrary to the impression given in Brussels, the peoples of Europe do not need any malign American interference to turn them against their leaders. They can see for themselves that national sovereignty, democracy and free speech are under attack from the EU centre, and that uncontrolled immigration is transforming their societies for the worse. 

That’s why people across Europe have been voting in increasing numbers for insurgent national conservative parties—not because of what Trump or anybody else says, but because of what their rulers have done to European society, culture, and civilisation.

 … Does anybody really imagine it is outrageous to suggest that top European leaders are weak, ineffective, and obsessed with making politically correct gestures?  

 … President Trump’s more idiotic critics in America and Europe like to accuse him of ruling like “a King,” ignoring the fact that—unlike many of the most powerful people in Brussels—he was democratically elected with a mandate to implement the very policies he is pursuing.

In this instance, “King” Donald looks rather more like the truth-telling boy in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, who says what everybody can see and shouts out that the Emperor has no clothes. In publicly exposing the dangerous ideologies and actions of the European elites, he has given a presidential voice to what many rank-and-file voters are thinking.

 … The truth is that Donald Trump is neither the cause of Europe’s problems nor the solution. Europe must resolve its own civilisational crisis. But that will not be possible while it is ruled by an EU elite that does not believe in the democratic civilisation it claims to lead.

Speaking of Hans Christian Andersen, as I wrote last year, regarding

Donald Trump's mean tweets, along with his (alleged) "petty insults and his dark obsessions" — they are only mean in that they describe exactly the kind of people that he sees on the Left. Just like the boy at the end of The Emperor's New Clothes. After the boy's outburst, according to what Hans Christian Andersen seems to have expected, the boy and all the bystanders in the streets ought to have referred to the tailors as scam artists and to their ruler the emperor (in the original Danish, he is a king) as some variant of a fool. 

Alas, as Winston Churchill wrote, "Men [and women] occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." 

In real life, according to modern-day Western mores and thanks to the eggings-on, overt and other, of the tailors themselves and the scam artists' (willing or not) allies and sympathizers, the boy was probably vilified as a "tailorphobe" and canceled for daring to have the gall of engaging in hate speech and other types of hate-filled rhetoric.