Editorials & Other Articles

Orbán and have, at long last, absorbed the lesson that Trump was never a reliable friend and doesn’t care about anyone or anything except his own power and glory. The Old World’s three biggest far-right names — Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Marine Le Pen in France and Nigel Farage in England — never had much in common with each other or with Trump and now understand that, in politics, you always fight alone. As for the ambitious schemes to reshape Europe’s political map variously proposed by JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, among others, to this point none have amounted to more than flatulent rhetoric.