The left has been in control of many countries over recent years. Its practitioners have imbued those countries with their leftist philosophies. The people have seen the result.
And now they are fighting back.
Last month’s election in Argentina saw a “libertarian” (read that as rightward) candidate, Javier Milei, win – displacing the leftward governance that had ruled the country for decades. According to Time Magazine: Milei, who has been described as the Argentine Donald Trump…:
…has said he would slash the size of the government, dollarize the economy and eliminate the Central Bank as a way to tackle galloping inflation that he blames on successive governments printing money indiscriminately in order to fund public spending.
And just yesterday, in The Netherlands, the Party For Freedom, headed by “far right populist” Geert Wilders, who advocates, among other things, closing the country to additional Muslim immigration and leaving the European Union, scored a stunning victory over the ruling coalition and now has the most seats in the Dutch Parliament (35 out of 150) and is in the best position to create a ruling coalition.
Are these good people? Well, they’re both extremely distasteful to me. I would be sick about voting for either of them, especially Wilders.
But, given the voting patterns in those two countries over so many years until now, I suspect a great many people there feel the same way I do…but voted for them anyway, because the alternative has proven to be so awful.
Say, isn’t that the situation so many voters in the United States find themselves in with Donald Trump, who is running against the left wing-puppeteered Joe Biden and his “we’re already way to the left and going further to the left all the time” Democrat Party?
Isn’t it possible that a lot of people who are considering voting for Trump would not cast that vote because they actually support him, but because the alternative has taken us so far afield that even a narcissistic egomaniac with the biggest mouth in politics and no control over it is preferable?
Is that set of circumstances enough for Trump to win the 2024 presidential election?
Before you answer, think Argentina and The Netherlands. Then get back to me.
