"I Don't Want My Children Growing Up in a Muslim Denmark": Anti-Trump Election Backfires for Danish PM As Her Social Democrats Suffer Worst Election Results in 123 Years

Fresh with her new heroic status as a Danish prime minister willing to stand up to Donald Trump, Mette Frederiksen announced fresh elections for March 24, but as Tuesday's results came in, the effort was seen to have backfired as her Social Democrats suffered their worse election defeat in over a century. 

Needless to say, this should not in any way be taken as a pro-Trump measure, given that every single politician, from far left to far right, has condemned, occasionally in the vilest of terms, POTUS 45 & 47's desire to acquire the Danish island of Greenland, as have som 90% of the population. Still, the voters did see through one politician's (none other than the PM's) desire to politicize the current animosity towards America.

A different reason for the trouncing of the leftists is at the bottom of this post.

From the Wall Street Journal (tak til Vincent Bourdonneau): 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen led her party to its worst election in more than 120 years on Tuesday, a vote that forces one of Europe’s most prominent leaders into difficult negotiations to secure a third term. 

But even at a low 22%, her Social Democrats are still the largest of numerous parties, so the WSJ's headline is that Danish Prime Minister [Is] in Limbo After Poor Election Result. Indeed, Mette Frederiksen has asked for four more years at the helm of the Scandinavian nation, and that is hardly unlikely to happen if the right-leaning parties cannot agree on some sort of coalition.

The Social Democrats received roughly 22% of the vote, down from 27.5% in 2022, their worst result since 1903. The party is still Denmark’s largest, and Frederiksen may retain power, but she falls short of being able to form a center-left coalition. 

 … Frederiksen, who became Denmark’s youngest-ever prime minister in 2019 at age 41, campaigned on her ability to stand up to Trump and provide stable leadership in a turbulent world. She also ran on proposals to introduce a wealth tax, improve welfare for retirees and deport more migrants convicted of violent crimes.  

Frederiksen may secure a majority coalition and hold on to power through tough negotiations ahead. With this election, the 179 seats in the Danish parliament will be distributed among 12 political parties.

In that process, a likely kingmaker will be former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, whose centrist party, the Moderates, now holds decisive seats that prevent either the center-left or the center-right from forming an outright majority coalition. Rasmussen was foreign minister in the departing government, a coalition of three parties across the political center.

What explains the losses of the Social Democrats contrasted with the meteoric rise of Denmark's far right, writes Kasper Fast, is the amount of immigrants to the suburbs of Copenhagen. "My children shall not grow up in a Muslim Denmark !" was the cry from the voters.

Just like in America and Britain, Danish citizens are fed up with immigrants, legal or otherwise, who commit all kinds of crimes; and during the campaign the Danish People's Party's top honcho, Morten Messerschmidt, never failed to point out various individuals who had committed sometimes heinous crimes and who and been neither jailed nor removed from the country.

DF stormer frem på Vestegnen: »Mine børn skal ikke vokse op i et muslimsk Danmark«

På Vestegnen er Dansk Folkeparti stormet frem ved valget, mens Socialdemokratiet samtidig er gået markant tilbage. Ifølge Poul Gaardbo (DF) fra Brøndby er de mange indvandrere på Vestegnen en stor del af forklaringen.

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