Kamala Harris is set to announce a proposal on Friday that would bar what she claims is grocery price gouging by American corporations. While on the surface, the Harris proposal might have some political appeal, the history of attempts to directly cap and regulate prices—both in the United States and abroad—has not yielded the results politicians have promised.
The Harris campaign and progressive activists have embraced the grocery price cap idea after struggling to shed voter negativity toward the Biden-Harris government’s handling of the economy. Under Harris’s watch, rampant inflation caused by a series of major Biden spending bills saw grocery prices spike by upwards of 30 percent. However, tackling these increases through government-mandated prices isn’t the solution, many economists argue.
In 1971, then-President Richard Nixon enacted price and wage restrictions, which—along with the abandonment of the Breton Woods monetary system—resulted in the “Nixon shock.” The aftermath saw the U.S. dollar plunge by nearly a third of its value during the 1970s. Compounded by former President Carter‘s loose fiscal policies, stagflation crippled the U.S. economy throughout the decade.
Additionally, the dollar volatility forced the Japanese central bank to directly intervene in its monetary system to prevent the Yen from appreciating against the dollar, which would have triggered a carry trade unwind. Interestingly, a similar scenario already resulted in a massive drop in Japanese markets last week—with cross-contagion sparking ongoing volatility in U.S. markets as well.
Aside from the Nixon experience, the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez‘s 2003 attempt to enact price controls resulted in bread lines and civil unrest in the country. After Chavez extended the price controls directly to farmers and the value of agricultural goods sold to supermarkets, the Venezuelan farming industry nearly collapsed—and resulted in starvation.
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Kamala Harris is set to announce a proposal on Friday that would bar what she claims is grocery price gouging by American corporations. While on the surface, the Harris proposal might have some political appeal, the history of attempts to directly cap and regulate prices—both in the United States and abroad—has not yielded the results politicians have promised.
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Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s like seeing the Matrix. Or being forced to watch Bridget Jones’s Diary. It’s cringe-inducing every time, and it offends the sensibilities of all but the most sociopathic in our midst. Unfortunately, this constituency is growing, boosted by the narcissism of social media and the atomization of major cities.
Nevertheless, despite its repugnance, everyone should be forced to confront the stark superficiality of the Harris-Walz campaign. From its inception with its ersatz ‘Brat’ mimicry to its rallies, which are really just free concerts with a speech at the end, the Kamala campaign is essentially just a hologram of a political campaign.
That is not to say there are no nuts and bolts, but those are for the “outside groups” like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, Arabella Advisors, America Votes, and others to concern themselves with. Kamala’s job is to convince you the wizard is real, not just a man behind a curtain. There aren’t even just a few examples of this. There are already many, which is a lot for a campaign that has only existed for a few weeks:
1. Stolen Military Valor. Stolen Coaching Valor.
By now, you’ll have likely heard the story of Kamala’s Vice Presidential nominee, Tim Walz, who has gone from robustly defending his record to a quiet, Friday night admission that he “misspoke” about his service in the National Guard.
The CNN interview with a former colleague of his is hard enough to watch as it is, but its conclusion adds the pièce de résistance by having the anchor hurriedly move the segment on in a full-flung panic about the damage she is reluctantly doing to the Harris-Walz campaign. It bears viewing.
It’s as frustrating as watching his boss Kamala and the media call him “coach,” when Walz was actually not the coach of the high school football team he constantly shouts out. Walz was the defense coordinator for the Mankato West High School football team. And while the team did win a state championship, it wasn’t Walz who led that team.
2. The AI Rally Imagery.
Perhaps you’ve seen the picture originally peddled by the Harris-Walz campaign. At a slight glance, it appears to show gargantuan crowds gathered below Air Force 2 for an appearance by Joe Biden’s Vice President. There’s a problem, however. The image below appears doctored, if not AI-generated, in large parts.
The phones in the image all appear to be showing wildly different things, and some hands, fingers, and thumbs are subtly warped. There are no reflections of the crowds in the plane’s livery. In fact, there’s no reflection of anything.
To be clear, the audience was real, but the pictures were so wildly digitally enhanced so as to cause doubt. Why? Who knows.
Kamala Harris’s campaign is using AI to manipulate her campaign photos and videos. And it’s all being orchestrated by @MikeNellis, a senior advisor to Kamala Harris who works with Loren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan as I have previously reported.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s rallies haven’t been typical political rallies, but they’ve been billed as such in an attempt to place them on par with, or even above, Trump’s iconic gatherings from over the last decade.
Instead, the rallies are actually concerts. Like the one in Wisconsin, which was actually a free Bon Iver gig (yeah, I don’t know either) right near that band’s hometown. Tack 30 minutes of political speeches on the end, call it a rally, and CNN does the rest.
“Do you see how many people are coming out here to see Kamala and Tim?!”
It was the same in Georgia, as throngs of “music” lovers flocked to the Georgia State Convention Center to see Megan Thee Stallion and Quavo (yeah, I don’t know either) and started to file out as soon as the politics began.
This will doubtless be a constant theme on the run-up to November, as liberal celebrities and their corporate management firms use their vast resources to prop up the Harris-Walz ticket.
Oh, and don’t overlook one of the funniest parts of Kamala’s rallies, especially since her media cheerleaders are keen to claim Trump is struggling to fill seats at his. The Kamala campaign team appears to be blocking off and blacking out areas of their venues so people don’t notice how many empty seats there really are.
Speaking of blacking out, it wouldn’t be a “phony Kamala” article without making mention of her condescending obsession with faking black vernacular, accents, and cultural references in the most cringeworthy ways since Hillary Clinton claimed she never left the house without a bottle of hot sauce and bucket of fried chicken. Ok, I added that last part. But it may as well have happened.
To be clear, since so many misunderstand the point of this line of attack, yes, Kamala Harris has some Jamaican lineage. She also has slave-owning lineage, but we don’t talk much about that for some reason. (As an aside, not that it matters, did you know Donald Trump is the first American President to have no slavers in his ancestry?)
The attempts to reframe Kamala as a black American woman are landing poorly with black American men especially, and also with the Indian American communities she almost exclusively claimed until recently.
While some feel squeamish about this topic, it bears understanding that much of the logos and the ethos of this election are self-selecting. People know who is stronger and weaker on their issues. What this election will now come down to is pathos. Who is more authentic? Who can move people? Who connects better? And who is a phony? This issue is a major example, amongst others, of what a diabolical fraudster Kamala Harris truly is.
5. Sticking to the Script.
Its only been a few weeks and people have already begun to notice. Unlike the extemporaneity of Trump’s speeches and appearances, everything Kamala Harris does adheres to a very tight script. In fact, all her rally speeches so far have been the exact same, except she switches out the name of the state she’s in. Check it out for yourself.
“The path to the White House runs right through *insert state here*,” is one of the lowest forms of political pandering, and frankly, smacks of her speechwriters phoning it in. It’s the same reason she’s done no major set piece interviews over the past month and is yet to commit to any, and why she refuses to debate on a network that isn’t overtly friendly to her.
At the end of the day, her and her team are petrified of shifting her away from the pre-written script, which makes sense, since every time she ad-libs she sounds like a college student who just took their first toke on a blunt.
“The passage of time… Unburdened by what has been… hahahahaha…”
This is where Trump can expose her in debate. Refuse to adhere to the rules. Refuse to stick to the script. Knock her off balance as much as possible. She’ll hit him with, “Excuse me, I’m speaking,” to which he needs to respond, “No, we heard you. We just don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Kamala, this is a debate. It goes back and forth. I know you’ve been told to stick to the script but running this country is not like reading from a script. It’s not a movie. It’s about who can take the right actions for the people, at the right time. And if the past four years have shown us anything – that ain’t you.”
BONUS: Is Doug Emhoff Tim Whatley from Seinfeld?
We’ve heard a common media refrain about my old mate Doug Emhoff’s Judaism, peaking when Kamala made excuses for refusing to choose Jewish man, Josh Shapiro, as her running mate for fear of further upending the Democrat Party’s not insignificant alliance with Hamas supporters aka many Arab-Americans.
But a Forward.com opinion column – a liberal Jewish news website – explained in 2021 that Harris and Emhoff’s daughter Ella “is not Jewish,” elaborating further from Ella’s spokesman: “Ella’s dad [Doug Emhoff] has been ‘celebrating Judaism for a few years now but out of an independent search.'”
“It’s not something she grew up with,” the spokesman further explained.
Now on the face of it, this doesn’t seem so crazy. A man exploring Judaism, a daughter who doesn’t care for it. Whatever, right? Almost.
But just like Jerry Seinfeld’s dentist Tim Whatley, Emhoff has almost overleaned into his newfound faith. Yes, there is no zealotry like that of a convert, but the consistent hollering, “I’m Jewish!” followed by their cheerleaders screaming, “He’s Jewish!” smacks of yet another attempt by Harris and her family to weaponize identity to help them politically.
Emhoff was only “independently searching” in Judaism for a few years when he became the White House’s key conduit on anti-Semitism, leapfrogging activists involved in the space for decades. Most recently, he’s been used as a shield to guard against accusations that she kept Shapiro off the ticket to placate Muslim Americans. It’s all just so very… fake.
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Once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's like seeing the Matrix. Or being forced to watch Bridget Jones's Diary. It's cringe-inducing every time, and it offends the sensibilities of all but the most sociopathic in our midst. Unfortunately, this constituency is growing, boosted by the narcissism of social media and the atomization of major cities.
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The news broke Friday afternoon that Project 2025 director Paul Dans—who has led a more than impressive personnel operation helping to gear up for a second Trump administration—has been pushed out of the Heritage Foundation, where his now infamous project was incubated.
In comments seen by The National Pulse, Dans explained to fellow staff how Project 2025 had “completed what we set out to do, which was create a unified conservative vision, bringing together over 110 leading organizations, united behind the cause of deconstructing the administrative state.”
Roger Sollenberger reported shortly after that the move had been orchestrated by Trump campaign staffer Chris LaCivita, explaining: “There’s a long-running rivalry over controlling a next admin. Senior Trump adviser Chris LaCivita led the charge against Dans.”
This is extremely disappointing news for the MAGA movement and for Trump loyalists who were hoping to lead a charge back into the administration in January.
The only other option being floated is Mercury (big pharma) lobbyist and former DeSantis advisor Susie Wiles, who worked closely with LaCivita to kneecap the Trump loyalists at Project 2025 and who attempted to bring NeverTrumper Charlie Spies into the new Republican National Committee (RNC) HQ.
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The news broke Friday afternoon that Project 2025 director Paul Dans—who has led a more than impressive personnel operation helping to gear up for a second Trump administration—has been pushed out of the Heritage Foundation, where his now infamous project was incubated.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
In August 2020, this website was the first in the world to expose the Transition Integrity Project as a product of the globalist deep state, which went on to help secure Joe Biden the White House following one of the most murky elections America has ever witnessed. Now, they’re back, with the pro-Biden Guardian newspaper confirming that “a similar set of wargaming exercises… pinpointed with uncanny precision Trump’s efforts to subvert [2020’s] presidential election.”
In reality, the Transition Integrity Project’s (TIP) predictions were less “uncanny” and more a roadmap for a Biden campaign that was losing badly to Trump. In the dead of night, however, tens of thousands of ballots began to appear, with Republicans scarcely equipped to deal with what has become known as “the steal.”
THE OLD SOROS CONNECTION.
The chain of custody on those ballots remains, to this day, unclear. But the chain of custody to the planning process for the steal was laid out by The National Pulse in advance of the 2020 election. Key George Soros operative Rosa Brooks founded the original TIP alongside the China-linked Nils Gilman, who went on to threaten the life of a former Trump administration official.
In 2024, Brooks is still on the scene with a new partner—Barton Gellman. Gellman is a hardline, pro-war, anti-Trump writer for Atlantic magazine who has also served as an advisor at leading interventionist and neoconservative think tanks in Washington, D.C. Gellman is the deep state personified.
In their newest fantasy, Brooks and Gellman imagine a situation where Trump wins in November 2024 and immediately invokes the Insurrection Act in order to crush political dissent. It is this level of extremist fever-dreaming that doubtless led Thomas Matthew Crooks to attempt to murder President Trump just weeks ago.
Per the Guardian, a “second game looked at Trump’s threat to politicise federal agencies, including the justice department, and weaponise them against his political enemies. A third probed his immigration plans, which include dark warnings of mass roundups of undocumented immigrants and large-scale deportations.”
Another three unreported exercises were played out, with little information available on them at the time of publication. Only a handful of individuals who participated in the May and June war games conducted under “tight security” agreed to be named. Those included former RNC diversity hire Michael Steele, ex-Trump deputy chief of staff for Homeland Security Elizabeth Neumann, former Bill Clinton associate Richard Danzig, and the Biden regime’s own Spencer Boyer – a leading NATO apparatchik.
“This wasn’t a fanciful or unrealistic scenario,” said Peter Keisler, former acting US attorney general under George W Bush, who participated in the simulation. “We know people associated with Trump have been looking into how to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military force domestically against protests.”
ANTI-MILITARY.
The participants even took aim at the U.S. military during the exercises.
“I’m not sure we can count on the military in a Trump world,” remarked Paul Eaton, a former major general in the US army who also participated in the uniparty effort to keep Trump from office.
“When you have an armed force of 2 million-plus men and women who get a steady diet of lies from Fox News and social media, then you risk ending up with a military that’s going to question what is really true,” Eaton said.
One of the most bizarre moments in the war game came when Trump allegedly rounded up three of Joe Biden’s grandchildren, as well as having former Vice President Mike Pence’s daughter arrested, with someone making the comment, “just to make sure Pence keeps his mouth shut.”
“That is just the tip of the iceberg,” another participant said.
Peter Keisler, a former acting US attorney general under George W. Bush, also participated in the simulations and concluded: “Do I think there’s a genuine jeopardy to our democracy? Absolutely. Do I think the country is ready for it? No. Do I think it’s guaranteed to end well? No… And this was just a game. Then there’s real life, and that’s ahead of us.”
In August 2020, this website was the first in the world to expose the Transition Integrity Project as a product of the globalist deep state, which went on to help secure Joe Biden the White House following one of the most murky elections America has ever witnessed. Now, they're back, with the pro-Biden Guardian newspaper confirming that "a similar set of wargaming exercises... pinpointed with uncanny precision Trump’s efforts to subvert [2020's] presidential election."
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
I’ve been warning for months now, including in my latest podcast released yesterday, that the Democrat-globalist machine is so much more prepared for this election than we are
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, joined Kash Patel and Matthew Taylor for a live discussion of Government Gangsters, the first documentary to be produced by WarRoom Films, in a special episode of War Room.
Produced by War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, starring Patel, and directed by Taylor, Government Gangsters aims to expose the Deep State and media operatives behind many of the hoaxes directed at Trump, including Russiagate and the 2019 and 2021 impeachments. It is available at WarRoom.film.
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, joined Kash Patel and Matthew Taylor for a live discussion of Government Gangsters, the first documentary to be produced by WarRoom Films, in a special episode of War Room.
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CLACTON-ON-SEA, England – Brexit leader Nigel Farage has won an historic victory in Clacton-on-Sea, with the long-standing political figure set to enter the British parliament for the first time. In his world–exclusive, first interview with Raheem Kassam, The National Pulse, and Real America’s Voice, Farage explained how his party will now form a “beachhead” in parliament. He also used the opportunity to wish his friend, President Donald J. Trump, luck in his campaign for the White House.
“I did 20 years in the European Parliament,” said Farage, “but breaking through the first-past-the-post system is tough. And we haven’t just won, we’ve won big. I’m thrilled.”
Describing his first priorities as a Member of Parliament, Farage said: “I think to try and run before we can walk might be a mistake, [but] I tell you what, those small boats [of illegalmigrants] will be crossing the [English] Channel next week. I guess that’s where I’ll start.”
“This is a bridgehead in the Parliament with many millions behind us,” Farage said, adding: “It’s not just what we do in Parliament that matters. I intend to build a mass movement around the country. Rallies, mass membership, getting ready to fight elections at local level, waiting for special elections to come up in Parliament. There is an energy behind this like you can’t believe.
Asked about the parallels between 2024 and 2016, the newly minted MP for Clacton remarked: “My success in ’16 was good news for Donald. I hope it is again. Go, Donald, go!”
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EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s first interview – with @RealAmVoice and @TheNatPulse – following his historic parliamentary victory in Clacton-on-Sea and the insurgency of his @reformparty_uk.
CLACTON-ON-SEA, England – Brexit leader Nigel Farage has won an historic victory in Clacton-on-Sea, with the long-standing political figure set to enter the British parliament for the first time. In his world-exclusive, first interview with Raheem Kassam, The National Pulse, and Real America's Voice, Farage explained how his party will now form a "beachhead" in parliament. He also used the opportunity to wish his friend, President Donald J. Trump, luck in his campaign for the White House.
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Former Trump lawyer and perennial grifter Michael Cohen claims he’s going to run for Congress in 2026. Specifically, Cohen is targeting New York’s 12th Congressional district, currently occupied by the porcine Jerry Nadler (D), who responded churlishly when quizzed about Cohen’s plan.
“We thank him for his service, but it’s enough already,” Cohen toldNew York Magazine‘s Olivia Nuzzi and Andrew Rice. The authors claim Cohen “would have run this year, but the protracted mental breakdown that came with the trial made it hard to plan the launch of a new career as a politician.”
Still, the news has rankled Nadler, who toldPOLITICO on Saturday morning: “What a great country America is… Anyone can run for Congress — even con men.”
Despite being lauded by Democrats during the Trump trial, Cohen looks like he’ll face significant opposition for his aspirant political career. In reality, Cohen has no real friends and no real allies, having simply been used as a tool for most of his legal career. He was even refused “surrogate” status by the Trump campaign in 2016, when he was at the height of his influence.
Still, the disgraced, perjury-happy lawyer has made millions from his podcasts and media appearances discussing Donald Trump, and appears to have the backing of the increasingly influential Meidas Touch Network – a far-left blog run by Epstein and Diddy-linked brothers who have recently been granted exclusive access by Joe Biden’s White House.
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Former Trump lawyer and perennial grifter Michael Cohen claims he's going to run for Congress in 2026. Specifically, Cohen is targeting New York's 12th Congressional district, currently occupied by the porcine Jerry Nadler (D), who responded churlishly when quizzed about Cohen's plan.
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Joe Biden acted not just as a popularity “cooler” by appearing alongside Emmanuel Macron during the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, but as a kind of “hex,” according to Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
Discussing Macron’s disastrous performance against Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally in the European Parliament elections with War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, Kassam stressed that Biden does not enjoy the undeserved “rock star” status of his former boss, Barack Obama, in Europe.
“There was definitely a different vibe when Obama used to go over there, and there was definitely a different way in which it translated to popularity,” Kassam recalled.
He explained that leaders across Europe, whether the notionally right-wing then-Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain or some of the more socialistic leaders on the Continent, were eager to be seen “cavorting with the ostensible leader of the free world.”
Biden, on the other hand, in Kassam’s estimation, does not just cool European leaders’ popularity but “puts a hex on it, quite frankly.”
“His very presence has probably done nothing net positive to any of these leaders he meets, with Macron included,” he added.
Appearing alongside Joe Biden in Normandy didn’t just have a cooling effect on Macron’s popularity ahead of the European elections, it put a hex on it, argues @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/tXxwhFnvoT
Listen to Raheem Kassam discuss the European election results at length with Jack Posobiec here.
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Joe Biden acted not just as a popularity "cooler" by appearing alongside Emmanuel Macron during the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, but as a kind of "hex," according to Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes the European election results suggest the Overton Window is shifting on mass migration, with populists not only making progress, but the so-called “center-right” increasingly adopting populist-like stances on the issue.
Speaking to War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, Kassam compared the populist right’s shifting of the Overton Window on immigration to the left’s shifting of the Overton Window on climate change, with Britain’s Conservative Party (Tories), Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and other parties of the establishment right now as ideologically committed to the green agenda as the political left.
“Climate change is as much dogma, is as much a religion, to [the center right] as it is to the Social Democrat parties,” he said.
In the United States, the MAGA right has already shifted the Overton Window on migration and “especially on the economy,” Kassam argued.
In the same way the left shifted the Overton Window towards the climate change agenda, populists are shifting the Overton Window against mass migration, argues @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/CsrZIfWPhA
Listen to Raheem Kassam discuss the European election results at length with Jack Posobiec here.
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes the European election results suggest the Overton Window is shifting on mass migration, with populists not only making progress, but the so-called "center-right" increasingly adopting populist-like stances on the issue.
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Results in the European Parliament elections across 27 European Union (EU) member states are mostly in, with the biggest news being the shellacking of Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France. With his party having received only around half as much support as Le Pen’s party, President Macron has called a snap election, commencing at the end of June—a battle the former Rothschild banker is better equipped to fight on short notice than the populist leader, given his support from the corporate media and donor class.
Despite no truly earth-shattering populist breakthrough in Europe beyond France, as discussed by Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, on Sunday, France was not the only point of interest in the European elections.
GERMANY.
The EU is often said to be driven by a Franco-German axis, and the German government was also shaken on Sunday. While the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party did not achieve as much support as Le Pen’s National Rally—which may form an alliance with the smaller right-populist Reconquest Party in the snap election, according to Marion Marechal—it placed ahead of the Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, and far ahead of his coalition partners in the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.
The 13.9 percent secured by the Social Democrats is its worst result in a national election since the end of the Second World War. Support for the far-left Greens has halved in five years. Before Scholz became Chancellor, the “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) under Angela Merkel had led the government for four consecutive terms, and its dire European results indicate it is likely to end up back in opposition after a single term.
The CDU, which topped the polls, is not a true conservative party, with Merkel governing as an open borders globalist despite winning support by declaring multiculturalism had “utterly failed” in 2010. Still, the party contains factions that are stronger on immigration, and these are likely to be empowered by the success of AfD, with the CDU forced to adopt more populist policies to stave off their ascent.
The German results speak to a growing divide between liberal former West Germany and ex-communist former East Germany, with the East being much more supportive of the AfD than the West.
While Macron has called a short-notice national election to try and reassert his authority after a heavy loss in the European elections, Alexander De Croo, the globalist Prime Minister of Belgium, has flat-out resigned. His Flemish Liberals and Democrats party (Open VLD) was hammered at the ballot box, crashing to 5.8 percent support.
The so-called “far-right” Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), which sits with Le Pen’s party in the Identity and Democracy euro-group in the European Parliament, achieved modest gains to place first overall. New Flemish Alliance, a more “moderate” but still populist-leaning party, which sits with the also more “moderate” but still populist-leaning European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) euro-group, was a close second.
Both are anti-mass migration, eurosceptic parties that support breaking Belgium up into Flemish-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, spelling trouble for a small nation that boasts outsized significance in the EU as the seat of its de facto capital of Brussels.
At first glance, the results for the populist right in Poland were not good. The national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost office to a globalist coalition after two terms in government last year, came second. It is the first time the party has placed second in a national election, including the last national and the recent local elections, since 2014, being eked out by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO) by around one percent.
However, the even more overtly populist Konfederacja (Confederation) party moved into third place, tripling its support compared to the last European election in 2019. While its share of the vote, at a little under 13 percent, may seem low overall, Confederation appears to have room to grow. It is the most popular party among Poles aged 18-29, with over 30 percent support.
Lewica (the Left), one of Tusk’s coalition allies, lost over half its support compared to 2019.
VISEGRAD PLUS.
The picture across the rest of the Visegrad—Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—was also mixed.
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban’s party placed first, but with less support than in 2019—although after four consecutive terms in office nationally, any government would likely be losing some support at this point in its life cycle.
Slovak leader Robert Fico, recovering from an assassination attempt he has blamed on the globalist opposition and corporate media linked to George Soros, gained nine points compared to 2019, but placed second overall. Fico’s coalition partners, the relatively new Republika and Hlas parties, also gained around 12.5 and 7.2 percent. Republika gained just 0.2 percent in 2019, and Hlas did not even contest the last European election.
In Czechia, populist former prime minister Andrej Babiš’s ANO party won the European elections for the third time in a row, with increased support. Perhaps more interestingly, the populist Přísaha and Motoristé (Oath and Motorists) coalition secured a surprise third-place finish, with their colorful leader Filip Turek—a former racecar driver—promising to show up to the European Parliament in a car with a “large carbon footprint.”
Austria, which is not a Visegrad member but aligns with the Central European mini-bloc when the populist right is in the ascendant in Vienna, produced perhaps the most positive results, with the “far-right” Freedom Party (FPÖ) roughly doubling its 2019 support and placing first. Party leader Herbert Kickl is already pressing Le Pen to let the AfD back into the Identity and Democracy euro-group, with the German populists having been ousted after an embarrassing gaffe involving a qualified defense of the Waffen SS. Nationally, the FPÖ wields more influence than the AfD, with the CDU-like Austrian People’s Party being willing to form coalitions with the Austrian populists in order to govern.
IBERIA.
Spain’s populist Vox party continued its rise, hitting 9.6 percent support—up from 1.6 percent in 2014 and 6.2 percent in 2019—to place third overall. The establishment right Partido Popular (PP) also made considerable gains to place first, ahead of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists. PP has worked with Vox, albeit reluctantly, at the regional level, showing that the populists can have an outsized impact on national politics.
Portugal’s version of Vox, the new Chega party, has burst onto the scene even more successfully than its Spanish counterpart, placing third on around 10 percent at its first attempt.
THE NETHERLANDS.
With the Netherlands’ longtime populist leader Geert Wilders poised to form a government following the Dutch national elections—though he is not, as POLITICOerroneously reports, the country’s prime minister—his Pary for Freedom (VVD) was being watched closely in the EU.
Although it did not place first, it greatly increased its vote share, from 3.5 percent to 17 percent.
ITALY.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) party was perhaps the best-performing populist party in the European elections after Le Pen’s National Rally, placing first with its vote share up from 6.5 percent to around 30 percent.
While this meteoric rise suggests Meloni has staying power, it comes at the expense of Lega (League), Matteo Salvini’s populist party, which has crashed from over 34 percent—an even better result than Meloni’s—to just under 10 percent.
Meloni has also been a great disappointment in government. While the establishment feared she would be Italy’s most right-wing leader since Benito Mussolini, she has embraced legalized mass migration, achieved little on illegal immigration, and obsessed over Ukraine and sucking up to Joe Biden instead of delivering on her populist campaign platform.
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Results in the European Parliament elections across 27 European Union (EU) member states are mostly in, with the biggest news being the shellacking of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party by Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France. With his party having received only around half as much support as Le Pen's party, President Macron has called a snap election, commencing at the end of June—a battle the former Rothschild banker is better equipped to fight on short notice than the populist leader, given his support from the corporate media and donor class.
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Many people are shocked to learn that because of active censorship, we currently have to spend more time making sure you can even see The National Pulse, than on producing the news itself. Which sucks. Because we do this for the truth, and for you.
But the regime doesn’t want you being informed. That’s why they want us to go away. And that will happen if more people don’t sign up to support our work. It’s basic supply and demand. So demand you get to read The National Pulse, unrestricted. Sign up, today.
We don’t sell ads, and refuse corporate or political cash. It all comes down to you, the reader. I hope you can help.
