If it steps like a goose....

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Anyone doubting whether Trump's instincts were fascistic will I hope have had those doubts satisfied by his first week in office. Terrible as the events at the airports have been, in Pollyanna mode I'm hoping that they will have given serious second thoughts to people thinking of voting for Le Pen in France. This (and worse) is what you'd be voting for: don't say there's no way you could have known.

If Le Pen is defeated - better, humiliated - it may stop the populist right in its tracks in mainland Europe. If not - well, après elle, le déluge.

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Fingers crossed...

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I saw how Brexit affected some people in Denmark who supposedly were very EU sceptical (Denmark has always been probably the most sceptical member, even more so that the UK). When they saw that exit could actually happen their anti-EU enthusiasm went down quite a bit. Bitching about the EU? Sure. Hating it? Yes, please! A double portion of that. Giving the two fingers to the EU and voting against it? Hell yeah! Actually having to leave? Wow wow, hang on, this is not what it was about! Now they saw that this can happen.