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Donald Trump was re-elected president in 2024, vowing to resume his struggle to end the hegemony of the leftist political elites and restore the government to the people. Those leftist elites aren’t in Washington alone; they’re also in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, and most of the other capitals of Europe.
There is, however, a handful of notable exceptions: several European countries have leaders who care as much about their own people as Trump does about Americans, and who are working to end the left’s dominance and restore sane government. One of them, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, came to the White House last Thursday and had a cordial meeting with Trump.
Despite the fact that the U.S. visit of a European leader who declared herself to be entirely in agreement with Trump’s guiding philosophy was a significant event, establishment media coverage was sparse. What there was of it was notable for being even more sneering and condescending than usual.
The Washington Post focused its coverage before the Trump-Meloni meeting on the assumption, which turned out to be false, that Meloni was in Washington to conclude a trade deal with Trump on behalf of the European Union; its Wednesday story on the planned meeting was headlined “Europe pins trade hopes on Italy’s Meloni, its Trump whisperer.” Because, you see, the president of the United States is like an animal who can’t be communicated with in any ordinary way; a person with special talents for communicating with dumb beasts has to be called in. That’s how the left sees Trump.
Meloni herself, however, denied the WaPo’s primary assertion, that the EU had sent her to make a deal with Trump. “I am sure we can make a deal,” she told reporters during her meeting with the president, but added, “I’m here to help on that. I cannot, look, deal in the name of the European Union.”
Much more importantly, Meloni pointed out some key ways in which she and Trump were simpatico: “We both share another fight,” she pointed out, “which is the fight against woke and EDI [DEI] ideology that would like to erase our history.” She even added, “We share lots of things on tackling illegal migration.”
Meloni made clear that the fight against illegal migration was a battle for the very survival of Western civilization. “When I speak about West,” she said, “mainly I don’t speak about a geographical space; I speak about a civilization. And I want to make that civilization stronger.”
This was extremely important, as the globalist socialists who run the European Union have been treating Europe as if it were simply a geographical space for decades now. They have acted as if they either didn’t know or care that European states have native populations and cultures of their own, or even worse, as if they actively wanted to destroy those populations and cultures.
Meloni, like Trump, is not willing to go along with this program. She invited Trump to visit Italy. “I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome,” she announced, “and consider the possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe.” And then she added, “The goal for me is to ‘Make the West Great Again.’”
CNN’s report on this positively dripped with condescension and contempt: “It took Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni exactly two sentences in the Oval Office on Thursday to signal to her host she was a kindred spirit.” CNN described Meloni as using some of Trump’s “favorite codewords to describe her battle against what they see as progressive ideals run amok.” And, of course, being the arrogant and narcissistic leftists that they are, CNN couldn’t resist giving Meloni a low grade for her efforts: “It was an unsubtle attempt to make clear from the get-go she was not the kind of European leader Trump has hosted in the same room over the course of the past two months.
It was indeed true, however, that Meloni is not like most other European leaders. Unlike them, and like Trump, she actually cares for her people and wants to protect their interests, rather than selling them down the river in pursuit of some leftist utopian vision or corrupt bargain that would enrich the elites while impoverishing the people who actually do work. If the Trump/Meloni friendship heralds a new era in European politics, and more leaders like Meloni arise, Europe — and America — have a fighting chance to survive. If, on the other hand, the leftist elites in both the United States and Europe manage to reestablish their hegemony, it’s game over for free societies.
Now if this involved Obama, Clinton(Bill or Biden it would be the Top(Fake)News story for the M.S. Media(CNN) Bottom Feeders and Big Headlines in the New York Slimes and Washington Compost
It almost seems like a Proscription against rich leftists is called for.
Is it just me or is Meloni hot? I bet she has that hot Italian blood, too.
Yeah she’s kind of hot. But I have yet to see a really great pic of her.
Europe is rapidly descending back into the petty principality stage that existed until Napoleon. It existed since the fall of Rome in a series of small fiefdoms jockeying for more lands and peons to tax. People often forget that New England and England are the same size. Germany is smaller than our state of Georgia. These countries are not significant anymore and only were as the competition was so pathetic.
Leftism is the rise of a new form of nobility that is replacing the cobbled together states of Europe that have existed since 1800. Russia wants its’ land/empire back and always will. Eastern and western Germany are splitting apart. Prussia and Bavaria? England and Scotland?
The EU cannot last. Denmark, Norway, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Britain are all looking at different plans and programs deviating from the line in Brussels. The Europeon border wars of the last century sucked us in because we wanted to move up from the childrens’ table to eat with the adults. It was all a waste. They hold the US in contempt except when the checks are handed out.
Their economy is deteriorating quickly and their racial content is being taken over by Semitic non-believers. The societal leaders are too involved with their monthly retainer checks from the above in Oman to care about their own borders or population. They are not intelligent or educated enough to realize that the new muslim empire will not allow non believers to survive.
In a generation or two it will be over except for the Duchy of Moscow who has enough integrity to fight for their own survival.
These new “nobles” missed out on the lessons of the past while scurrying around in search of gold coins to worship. Their ruling chairs are more rickety than they are equipped to understand.
The creation of Diocletian has run its’ course and will be absorbed into the folds of history. (If books and english survive.}
“Trump’s guiding philosophy”
President Trump has no guiding philosophy, he’s simply going by common sense but common sense is not sufficient for guiding a country. Trump is about as unintellectual as they get. That’s a good thing because 99% of today’s intellectuals are Marxists. But nevertheless without an explicit and non-contradictory philosophical understanding of freedom and liberty President Trump is always at risk of doing the wrong thing and following the wrong advice.
“Americans are the most reality-oriented people on earth. Their outstanding characteristic is the childhood form of reasoning: common sense. It is their only protection. But common sense is not enough where theoretical knowledge is required: it can make simple, concrete-bound connections—it cannot integrate complex issues, or deal with wide abstractions, or forecast the future…
A majority without an ideology is a helpless mob, to be taken over by anyone . . . . Political freedom requires much more than the people’s wish. It requires an enormously complex knowledge of political theory and of how to implement it in practice.” – Ayn Rand
Like our friend THC here, the left has that unfortunate combination of ignorance and arrogance. They haven’t the ability to learn from their mistakes, admit they don’t know everything and haven’t the humility to try.
The laughable thing about you is you think you are an intellectual.
And we have seen what a bang up job the intellectuals the have done since the Wilson presidency……two world wars, the U.N. the great Depression, a 45 year cold war, the Kennedys, Johnson and his Great Society, John Kerry, the Clintons and the Obamas and his holdovers in the Biden presidency (Obama’s 3rd term).
Sucks to be an intellectual, doesn’t it.
We of the deplorable, racist, Nazi garbage, the great unwashed of America are not worthy of the nobility, the pillars of justice like John (ketchup whore) Kerry.
Lurch is not worthy of me.
Common sense is a philosophy. And liberty and freedom are back in America precisely because Trump is President again.
I see we have 5 America haters here. Suck a bloody bag of dicks.
Make that eight, pal. If a wife-beating, child abandoning, short, fat, and vulgar little 5’’8” guy with a history of drunk driving arrests and evictions can claim to be a Family Values Patriot solely by pledging unquestioning allegiance to Trump, I think that I’ll take my Patriotism elsewhere.
That D-Bag wet back hates President Trump. Try harder, tardmo.
Oooo, the media sneers. Trump is so afraid of the elitist media.
The media despise Meloni because she is so superior on every level to failed candidate Kamala.
I watched that televised meeting. Meloni is a lot like Trump. She has no problem answering the accusations in the form of questions from the Minitrue media trolls and she has nothing to hide.
Lefties really are the enemies of mankind.
If there’s one thing the left hates it’s SUCCESS and HAPPINESS – I guess they hate a lot more things!! They hate self reliance because their base is dependent on the left for their subsistence! They hate DECENCY for obvious reasons! They hate conservatives because we don’t vote for anti-America DEMOcrats! It’s simple – THEY HATE!
Now WHY they HATE is also simple – they are mentally ill! Listen to what the DEMOcrats say and consider HOW a SANE person could say that! ILLEGAL INVADERS should be REMOVED! Simple statement and absolutely SANE – but NOT to a DEMOcrat! But then they have an ulterior motive – VOTERS!! I’ve posted MANY times that if we passed a LAW that ALL ILLEGALS would be REGISTERED to VOTE but their VOTES would AUTOMATICALLY GO TO REPUBLICANS then the DEMOcrats would be manning – or womanning – or transing the BORDER with PITCHFORKS!!! The EU is mostly DEMOcrats so that explains a lot!
It sure would be nice if President Trump could pass an EO commanding and demanding that the media publish truth only under penalty of death for transgressors. Public hangings of sniveling, lying, crooked, scum-of-the -earth reporters would go a long way in curbing the deceitful ploys and distortions the MSM perpetrates on an innocent populace.
Bringing back tar and feathers and/or public flogging would contribute to ending the vile and corrupt media from spewing the vile and putrid excrement that they have become infamous for. They need to be made examples of in the public square.
Go Trump. There has to be some laws they are breaking with their constant, consistent and nauseating diatribe.
As much as I’d like to see leftists no more because they skulk into oblivion, the greater possibility is a giant lurch and jerk into more extreme narratives and violence.
Blinded by unwarranted self righteous indignation, the lot justifies any action pushing their ideology.