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 Forum for Democracy party in the Netherlands explained: “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.

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.

While much of the world celebrates Remembrance Day, the people of the United States celebrate Veterans Day. The federal holiday, which began as Armistice Day—much like Remembrance Day holidays—originally commemorated the end of World War I on November 11, 1918. In the first commemoration of Armistice Day in 1919, then-President Woodrow Wilson declared, “To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations.”

However, with the United States’ history being separated from much of the strife of Europe, the holiday evolved over the years into a day to honor living veterans of the country’s military. Meanwhile, Memorial Day—observed on the last Monday of May—is held as a day of honor and mourning for those who have died fighting for the United States. The evolution of the two federal holidays is a reflection of the uniqueness of the American experience and our history of conflict.

Memorial Day’s roots are in the U.S. Civil War, first instituted in 1868 as “Decoration Day” to remember fallen Union soldiers. As Memorial Day became established in the American tradition, it entered a sort of calendar conflict with the Anglosphere’s Remembrance Day nearly five decades later. For about a 50-year period, the United States marked both memorials.

The initial push to change Armistice Day began after World War II, when veterans pushed to have a national day of recognition. President Dwight D. Eisenhower embraced the idea, and urged Congress to take action.

In 1954—following the Korean War—the United States Congress moved to change Armistice Day to Veterans Day, a holiday that celebrates and honors those who have served the country in any armed conflict. Instead of just the American doughboys who crossed the Atlantic as part of the expeditionary force that provided much-needed relief to Western Europe in the waning years of World War I, Veterans Day became a day to encompass those who fought against the tyranny of Nazism in World War II, and against international communism in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Veterans Day now encompasses all who have served and—though no longer in arms and combat—still serve the nation.

Tuesday night was an unmitigated disaster for the Republican Party, the conservative movement, MAGA, and America.

What made it so much worse is that the disaster was avoidable at multiple levels, and over the next few days, the vested interests will all point fingers at one another in an attempt to distract from their own failures. But we will be very honest and clear with you, even though people have urged us to bite our tongues: this was an institutional failure.

So let’s examine the institutions.

Who runs the RNC? That’s right, it’s Albania’s highest-paid consultant, Chris LaCivita. Who runs the White House? That’s right, it’s corporate America’s greatest ally, Susie Wiles. Don’t say we didn’t warn you of this.

How could two of the highest-paid political consultants and strategists IN THE ENTIRE WORLD not see the carnage of this election night coming? And how did they do so little to avert this wanton destruction?

Long-time followers of The National Pulse know we’ve been harping on about this since mid-way through the 2024 campaign. It hurts us in our hearts that we’re living through this. America finds itself at its wits’ end. We know you are, too. 

What makes this more difficult is that, at the same time, we all LOVE DONALD TRUMP and EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE FOR THIS COUNTRY and the free world. Yet in our heart of hearts, we also have to ask ourselves: who allowed these people to take the helm?

President Donald J. Trump needs to wake up now and toss these LOSERS out. Anything less is political malpractice.

That doesn’t mean we love Trump any less. It means we’re trying to have his and America’s back.

Please make no mistake about it: the electorates in New York, New Jersey, California, and Virginia are weapons-grade, suicidal nutjobs for voting for the candidates they’ve elected tonight. But here at The National Pulse, we are both optimists and realists in equal measure.

All of this was avoidable. And we are fuming.

Tuesday night was an absolute travesty and a disgrace. That we couldn’t beat the Islamists, the socialists, and the deep state!?

It’s time we stopped fawning at the feet of the consultants who demand our fealty because they managed to beat the WORST CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY (Kamala).

We know some of you will question us for saying it. We don’t care. Some of us have lived through this in Europe. It’s why we’re here. It’s why we published NO GO ZONES and ENOCH WAS RIGHT. It’s why we’ve resisted every attempt from the left, from corporate America, and from foreign powers to BUY US OUT and SHUT US UP. Believe me, they’ve tried, over and over again. BUT WE BELIEVE IN AMERICA.

We believe in America First.

This is existential level stuff, folks. There can no longer be any sacred cows.

We genuinely could’ve won SOME if not ALL of these races. In fact, many of the influencers you might follow tried to convince you that we would win.

Did the candidates suck? Obviously. Winsome Sears? Dustbin of history. Ciaterelli? Dustin of history. Sliwa? Somewhat respectable due to his history of work in the city. But still, a wildly flawed pick, and a humiliatingly flawed campaign and strategy. 

We on the right are pissing up a rope right now.

And we couldn’t care less about the GOP and its apparatus. What we care about is how much WORSE people’s lives will now become as a result of this nonsense.

A golden age? Hell, we’re in the dark ages tonight.

And again, totally self inflicted.

It takes a very particular kind of political brainworm to look at a country where nearly half the population is obese, where Medicare and Medicaid hemorrhage cash treating diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer — and say: let’s not pay for the medicine that actually fixes the root problem.

And yet, here we are.

GLP-1 medications, such as Zepbound and Wegovy, appear to be the first truly practical and measurable tools in the fight against obesity. And it’s a fight America has been losing for some time. It makes everything more complicated, including schooling, military and police recruitment, and, of course, it strains the healthcare system in the long term.

These aren’t fad diets or late-night infomercial garbage. They’re clinical, FDA-approved drugs with proven, repeatable results. They make people eat less. They make people lose weight. They make people healthier. The trial data, lived experiences, and economic modeling all back it up, now.

So why, in God’s name, are Medicare and Medicaid still banned from covering them?

The answer, naturally, is bureaucracy. Specifically, rules written in a different century, when “obesity” was treated like a cosmetic problem instead of what it actually is: a chronic, degenerative, society-wrecking disease. These regulations are so old that they might as well be written in typewriter ink or sent via fax. And they remain in place today, even as America’s health outcomes spiral and healthcare costs explode — not despite them, but because of them.

This is both a policy oversight and a moral failure. It’s also an utter financial farce.

Because when you don’t treat obesity at the source, you get to pay for everything that follows: heart disease, diabetes, kidney failure, amputations, strokes, early dementia, and cancers. You also get to pay for all the consequences of those conditions: hospital beds, nursing homes, permanent disability, and premature death.

Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars every single year dealing with obesity and its aftermath.

A recent study found that covering GLP-1s under Medicare alone, without involvement from private insurance, would generate nearly $1 trillion in economic and social benefits over the next decade. It’s a Manhattan Project for public health, sitting right in front of us and still being ignored. And while America dithers, the consequences compound.

Patients desperate for help are turning to third-world compounders. Backroom operators cooking up unregulated versions of these drugs, often sourced from China or God knows where. The FDA itself has been warning people: these versions are riskier, less effective, and sometimes outright dangerous. But when your insurance doesn’t cover the legitimate option, what do you expect people to do?

And guess who’s hit hardest? Poor people. Working-class Americans who can’t afford the sticker price, or who cannot wait for the system to get its act together. The wealthy are getting thinner and healthier, and everyone else is getting sicker. This is not a populist healthcare model.

This is where the left also usually shrieks about inequality. And for once, they’d be right. However, it’s their regulatory regime that enforces the inequality.

A DPAC poll from earlier this year found nearly 70% of Republican voters and Trump supporters back Medicare and Medicaid coverage of GLP-1s. That is what we call consensus. That’s people using their eyes and their brains and saying, “Yeah, this makes sense.”

Because it does make sense.

Making America Healthy Again means using the tools we have. It means giving people choices.

Tackling obesity isn’t like elective Botox or some reality-TV lifestyle add-on. It’s a public health necessity.

It is infinitely cheaper, more intelligent, and humane to pay for weight loss up front than it is to bankroll the slow, brutal consequences of doing nothing.

America is a nation spending billions cleaning up after obesity, and zero on stopping it at the source.

That’s not just stupid. That’s sabotage.

President Trump and Congress, it is time for change.