The 5 European leaders most likely to be Donald Trump’s soulmate
Europe has its own breed of right-wing populists, and their seemingly inexorable rise toward the continent’s corridors of power, like Trump’s toward the US Republican presidential nomination, is no joke.
From nationalists wooing mainstream voters in France to barely disguised neo-Nazis scoring votes in recession-racked Greece, the radical right is on the march in a Europe where terrorism and the unprecedented refugee influx have added to the destabilizing effects of a long economic crisis.
Marine Le Pen
Spooked by the scale of the FN’s success, moderate voters turned out in force to ensure the far-right was defeated in the second round. ... Marine Le Pen is famously anti-immigration, but even she thinks Trump went a bit too far with his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States.Not that she’s afraid of making controversial statements on migrants: Her campaign team last month put out a statement calling for the “eradication of bacterial immigration,” claiming that migration was causing an “alarming presence of contagious diseases.”
Victor Orban
... when it comes to whipping up alarmist language over Muslim migrants, Orban can teach Trump a thing or two. “If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of … terrorism will significantly increase,” he said in a recent interview with Politico, adding that “all the terrorists are migrants.” Orban says refugees represent a threat to Christian Europe and he built a massive fence along Hungary’s border to keep them out. He denounces liberal democracy, praises Putin, and accused Merkel of “moral imperialism” for seeking a more welcoming European response to refugees.
Geert Wilders
Wilders is a Trump fan. “I hope @realDonaldTrump will be the next US President. Good for America, good for Europe. We need brave leaders,” he tweeted on the night Trump made his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Wilders is fiercely anti-Islam and has surged in opinion polls this year thanks to the refugee crisis and the attacks in Paris. He says the refugee crisis is “an Islamic invasion,” warning of “masses of young men in their twenties with beards singing Allahu Akbar across Europe.”
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The other two on the European far-right are Italy's Matteo Savlini of the Northern Front and Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski.