4 December 2025

The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right

Ivan Krastev

In the ten months since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office, he has upended the way the United States engages with allies and adversaries alike. He is not only remaking the architecture and decoration of the White House; he is redrawing the mental maps through which Washington sees the world.

Initially, the administration’s focus on tariffs suggested that Trump was uninterested in the politics of other countries and cared only about trade balances. More recent moves have destroyed that illusion. It is ideology, not economics, that explains Trump’s hostility toward Brazil (whose leftist president, Luiz Iná

No comments: