by Kenneth Schmidt, SHTF Plan:

Kenneth Schmidt highlights that European populist-nationalist movements and the MAGA movement share parallels in challenging entrenched globalist elites and deep state structures, as revealed by the EU and USAID scandals exposing manipulated media and controlled public opinion in the West.
Over the years I have been one of those people encouraged by the many parallels between European populist-nationalists and the MAGA movement in the US. There is indeed something going on in many places in the world where shadowy deep states are under threat by nationalist movements of many types. Sometimes, though, I have struck a cautionary note, telling people that while there may be similarities between, say, Trump in the US, Farage in the UK, and Orbán in Hungary, conflating these groups into a single political force is a bridge too far. Of course, with the Left, all three aforementioned groups would be thrown into the sloppy category of “Fascist.” This is, of course, the kind of lazy conceptual thinking often used by “the bad guys.” Poor Benito must be looking down from Valhalla or heaven (or wherever he is) and shaking his head, and thinking that no one understands his ex-movement. The establishment Left can’t think in a philosophical way about politics because it is, in a way, forbidden in their ranks.