Hungary: America's Greatest European Ally

From black sheep to white swan, overnight. Nobody loves Trump as much in the EU as the Hungarians.

This will be a short article on the basis of a single graph.

Overnight, Trump won again, big.

Donald Trump is unpopular in Western Europe. Whether this is due to Western Europe's arrogance, decadence, or half a century of cultural colonization by the US hegemonic liberal elite is a matter for sociologists — not science — to investigate.

Donald Trump is less disagreeable to Eastern Europe. Our critics say this is because our brains have not developed enough; our supporters say this is because our spines have not atrophied yet. Let the sociologists do the research — if we get an answer we like, it still won't be science.

This is how support for the two candidates at the European end of the wider American Empire stood among the non-voting public, divided into nation states:

Hungary won this one within the EU, big time. Implicitly, of course, since we had no vote. The most the government could do was to bet, which it did—all in for Trump. (There was no great risk involved; another Democratic government would have made no difference to our relations already at rock bottom.)

The Hungarian government won. It wasn’t victorious: we had no say in the race, we consume the US presidential election like we consume Netflix. We can only bet on it.

But this graph is not about the government; it's about popularity among the people, which is a base for the government and an indicator of the ideological pressures of the dominant soft powers in the country — from universities to the independent press.

The Danish prime minister may congratulate Trump, but she does not do so in good humor.

For those who like graphs, here's the source, and here’s a similar survey.

Overnight, we have become the European bastion of Atlanticism, America's best friend, and the rapid pace of this 180-degree turn shows how much this is worth: not completely worthless, better than being European Satan in Washington's eyes, but not a necessity.

That is why it is not worth building a domestic policy based on the US embassy, because if there is a change of personnel there, the ground disappears from under your feet. Domestic policy has to work even if the US ambassador is diplomatically indifferent, and if it is really good, it works even if he is hostile.

Make America Great Again, and fix double taxation, ASAP!

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This article was originally published in Hungarian.

The European elites failed at 1D chess

The European elites, after being forced to sever relations with Russia, a nearby and cheap resource provider, then being ordered to sabotage relationships with China, a huge market that never forgets an insult, did so being assured that they can fall back on the United States.

Which is now MAGA country.

Well played!

Update: too little, too late: