The Western world is watching the second Trump term with as much attentiveness as American citizens. Why? Because they have almost as much ‘skin in the game.’
Next year doesn’t simply mark a decade since the MAGA movement forcefully took the global stage, but also a decade since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, a decade since Italy’s globalist government collapsed, and a decade since Marine Le Pen broke through in national polling in France.
Austria’s Freedom Party ran the establishment close; Duterte won in the Philippines, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) became a significant fixture in domestic German politics for the first time, and Geert Wilders’s PVV began making its breakthrough.
All of this happened in the shadow of the 2015/16 mass migration crisis, which took some of its most heinous victims, harbingers of what was to come, in the form of the Cologne mass sex assault scandal that we first broke in the English language.
One can never do justice to the shock that pulsated across Europe and the United States that year. It was the defining moment in politics for over 1/6th of the global population, and it would have further knock-on effects in Russia, India, China, and the Middle East. Twenty-sixteen, ironically, was a global year. We can expect 2026 to be equally important, in a Newtonian sense.
What started in Europe a decade ago, in the small seaside towns of England, the suburbs of France and Germany, and indeed across the continent, swiftly made its way Stateside, and is now about to bounce back across the Atlantic.
The last two analyses from The National Pulse have focused on the inglorious disaster of November 4, 2025, and the impending catastrophe of November 3, 2026. If nothing is done, if no warnings are heeded, the failures of a Republican Party with gale force winds at their backs will certainly be felt and suffered by Europe’s populist-nationalists and indeed beyond.
Will Nigel Farage become Prime Minister? Will the Rassemblement National recover from the lawfare against Marine Le Pen? Will Hungary, though voting by April next year, choose stability in the form of Viktor Orban, or will the globalists and leftists form the kind of alliance they did in New York just ten days ago? The list of examples goes on.
“While there’s still a lot of time until the midterm elections in the US, there’s no question that a strong showing from the Republican Party and the MAGA movement would contribute momentum to Hungarian-American relations and Viktor Orbán’s party,” Rajmund Fekete, a historian and director of the Institute for the Research of Communism, told The National Pulse this week.
“The Biden era was not good for Hungary. The relationship really suffered. So many in Hungary are understandably rooting for the success of MAGA and Republicans next year.”
Colleagues across the old world echo his concerns.
“The midterms will matter almost as much to Brits as they do to Americans. The success of the second Trump administration will have knock-on effects in England just as Brexit did in America back in 2016. We’re watching closely and as always, rooting for the President,” said Andy Wigmore, an original ‘bad boy’ of Brexit, and top ally of Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.
French conservatives have similar sentiments, with Kate Pesey of The Tocqueville Fellowship telling me: “What I have heard in my travels is that the right in Europe is wondering if it’s already the comeback of the extreme left? Will what happened in NY happen elsewhere in the US? Are these the type of Democrats who are winning? Will it weaken Trump’s policies and his allies around the world? Meloni, Orban, etc. What is the plan to stop the damage done by these Islamo-gauchistes?”
Thierry Baudet, who leads the We are totally supportive of the Trump movement and are watching closely. This is a global attempt to recapture power from the international left, and Europe is directly affected by any wins or losses in America.”
The stakes, it appears, couldn’t be higher. And behind almost all closed doors, whether on Capitol Hill or anywhere in the developed world, politicos whisper about whether Trump’s economy will be roaring by the time Americans vote in under a year, or whether his administration has become too consumed by foreign affairs, scandals such as the Epstein saga, and indeed the recent government shutdown.
“It’s obvious that everyone — populist-nationalists and everyone else — will be watching these results closely, because the stakes are huge. The real question is whether this political program can show results that the public actually recognizes and supports. This movement is constantly attacked on its credibility and whether its ideas can even work, which is exactly why these results matter,” said Charlotte D’Ornellas, a firebrand conservative columnist in Paris.
The War Room’s Benjamin Harnwell equally opined: “The various populist-nationalist iterations around the world are certainly intrinsically linked. I see it as a worldwide convoy movement — rather than a unified battalion — a flotilla. An armada. An association of free-standing vessels that independently travel together.
“But the US is the convoy’s flagship — that’s precisely why what happens in America in 2026 is so important. I’d say it adds plus or minus 50 percent to what we’re doing here in Occupied Europe. A good result in America will give our movements a boost of 50 percent, whereas a bad result will probably give us a setback of 50 percent. It’s a headwinds/tailwinds thing.”
With so much on the line, populists, nationalists, and conservatives across the world appear increasingly concerned that a far-left Democrat victory next November will usher in a new dark age of extreme, authoritarian, Islam-allied populism from the far-left.
If Republicans lose badly next year, the final two Trump years will be punctuated by subpoenas, impeachments, and other deep state shenanigans that would leave so much of the world teetering on the brink of domination by America’s adversaries.
President Trump, many people are saying, must quickly return to his own populist roots and campaign pledges, rather than entertaining the Big Pharma or Big Bank bosses, and floating non-starter ideas like 50-year mortgages.
As goes America, so goes the world.
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