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Trump's US Election Loss Dismays His Populist Allies in Europe

Jamie Dettmer

   There was undisguised glee among Europe's liberals and centrists when
   Joe Biden was projected the winner of the race for the White House. But
   for the continent's populist nationalists, including a group of
   national leaders in Central Europe, the election outcome has prompted
   dismay, and some foreboding.

   With Trump out of the White House they would be deprived of a powerful
   cheerleading ally in Washington and some centrists predict his
   departure will have a knock-on effect of retarding the political
   fortunes of leaders on the continent of Europe who espouse populist
   politics.

   "Trump's defeat can be the beginning of the end of the triumph of
   far-right populisms also in Europe," tweeted Donald Tusk, former
   president of the European Council and now head of the European People's
   Party, Europe's largest transnational political party made up Christian
   Democrats and moderate Conservatives.

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