Is the West experiencing just another swing of the political pendulum or is Trump 2.0 a sign of something darker?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : As the "people's chancellor", a historically burdened term, Kickl and his party will be "tools" to fix all of what he says ails Austria: self-serving elites, "wokeism" and "the rotten fruit of mass migration".
50% : "On this side of the Atlantic, with Berlin and Paris in political stasis, it's an intriguing prospect that defending European democracy in 2025 falls to two countries with recent experiences of fascism and communism: Italy and Poland.
50% : After all, Tusk still enjoys considerable European good will over his government's ongoing - and unprecedented - efforts to roll back the previous government's attempted takeover of state institutions.
49% : [ Polish PM Donald Tusk emerges to take leading role on UkraineOpens in new window ]"We must become an organism capable not only of survival but also of political offensives," said Tusk this week, while launching Poland's six-month presidency of the EU.
45% : Meanwhile those who have switched off politics entirely, or joke that "Trump won't live rent free in my head for another four years", are offering 21st century version of what 20th century Germans called inner emigration.
42% : Unlike Meloni he is a creature of the EU machine and, as a former European Council president, has secured remarkable shifts on EU migration norms.
41% : Despite her critics' dire predictions, Italian analysts note Meloni has yet to depart from any European democratic norms, is adhering to EU fiscal rules and has frozen controversial domestic reforms of the constitution, courts and federalism.
39% : "But there are shades of populism and he will have to keep his distance from Trump.
39% : But Tusk sold the move to EU partners as a belated pushback against Russia's "hybrid warfare" in the region, funnelling migrants to the border to cause a humanitarian crisis.
37% : Will Trump 2.0 mean, as Yeats wrote, "anarchy is loosed upon the world"?
33% : A century after the poet wrote those lines, as Europe emerged from war and a severe flu pandemic, the Continent is once again grappling with war, pandemic aftershocks and the second coming of Donald Trump.
33% : "While the Global South pushes for a new multilateral world order from outside, Trump 2.0 may take an even heavier wrecking from within.
33% : Italy's post-fascist prime minister Giorgia Meloni's skill at handling Trump and Musk could make her Europe's most important conduit in addressing, or avoiding, a transatlantic trade war.

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