(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. La histeria del coro)

Now that anti-Trump hysteria has become a civic duty in Europe as well as a moral commandment, it is clear that only a few heroes in Europe are going to understand that the American president Donald Trump is not playing the hooligan, as many of the agitated members of the political and media chorus of Spain’s two-party system believe. He does not want to harm the world out of sheer malice, nor because he is an idiot, nor because he wants to make himself rich, as the biggest fools around here say. Rather, Trump is doing what he promised: turning upside down a system he considers definitively failed and which has degenerated in a way so unfavourable to his homeland that it has turned the United States into a loser left picking up everyone else’s tab.

He takes such an analysis of the world situation very badly, and so do the people he has this time chosen with care to help him in this colossal undertaking, and so do the more than 77 million Americans who voted for him to make this radical voyage across stormy waters toward another trade order, one less unfavourable and which they consider fairer. He does it because he believes it is necessary and because he believes he is able to do it. There will be those who want to stop him, such as China. Or they will reach an agreement. Others may perhaps wake up after decades of living off past earnings. And others will sink and suffer the consequences of being weak despite having had the opportunity and the means not to be.

Only those who thought that in this second term President Donald Trump was going to be that naive businessman who signed up every traitor who flattered him and every adviser who, out of other people’s interests, sold him placid plans, ought to be surprised. That, after a first term spent surrounded by the disloyal and by saboteurs, riddled with betrayals and Sadducean traps of the deep state. And after four years of ordeal in which they have tried to sink him, imprison him and murder him several times.

Donald Trump and his team are going to do many things that displease us and harm us, in the best case only during the first, most turbulent stages of the changes and the negotiations. Because his plans are very ambitious, they pass through phases that will be painful, and everyone is going to suffer, including Americans of course, and as always the weakest will suffer most.

And if we Europeans are among the weak, it is not the fault of Donald Trump, who defends his own interests and those of his compatriots, but of our rulers, who for many a decade have been obsessed with imposing on Europe a path of failure, of irrationality and of lies as a permanent discourse.

The European leaders of that great single party of social democracy that runs the European Union have spent almost ten years insulting Trump and helping all his enemies. Now, instead of seeking solutions by dismantling their own barriers and with deep amendments to their attitude toward the United States, they throw themselves into an escalation of rage and declaratory fury that leads nowhere. When they ought by now to be radically changing their policy, clearing the sinister regulatory jungle of their own making that is the worst enemy of agriculture, of industry, of transport, of trade itself, of energy, of research and of practically every field of human activity.

On the contrary, the reaction from Brussels of the “alliance of the shrinking majority” is a war against the European forces that are moving away from the falsely so-called “Europeanist” path of Brussels centralist and socialist imposition, of social engineering and of contempt for the interests of the nations and for the identity of Europeans; the single party of People’s Party members, socialists, greens and communists has begun to treat them as fifth columnists for Donald Trump. Those forces grow day by day, election after election, and the only answer from Brussels is to retreat into its bunker and attack those forces with measures of censorship, repression and antidemocratic restriction of freedoms and rights. If they have been practising this policy for years, Trump’s victory has intensified the aggressiveness, because it has set off panic in the ranks of an ever weaker social democratic hegemony, even though its most solid pillar, the European People’s Party, continues to benefit from the misunderstanding of many voters.

It is Donald Trump, a businessman who ten years ago was without ideology, who has assumed, with his now unquestionable conquest of the Republican Party in the United States, the leadership in the defence of many of the values that the national and conservative forces have been defending for decades, even if from positions of great weakness, when not of marginalisation. Today their positions have advanced to the point where they can claim power in many countries, and they will go on taking it however many traps, disqualifications and propaganda against them they encounter.

We are going to go through a very turbulent time in which the forces of the single party in Europe will continue to deteriorate but will resort to forms of authoritarian government, of coercion and repression, that in the European Union we would have considered unthinkable. In Spain, a government of permanent abuse and generalised corruption has begun its offensive to try to crush resistance to the criminal policies that keep it in power in complicity with the enemies of the State.

Germany has no government, and we shall see whether in the end it has the CDU-SPD coalition now being prepared. Friedrich Merz’s weakness has already led to speculation that he could end up the victim of an operation that leaves him out of power. But if they are preparing anything, it is the agenda of repression and propaganda against the national forces of the right such as the AfD, which is on the point of becoming the most voted party. The forces stigmatised as “far-right” or “Trumpist”, after having been “pugilists”, “fascists” and the other usual epithets of the virtuous platform of synchronised opinion, will have to endure with patience the conversion of Trump and his policies into a propaganda weapon of Brussels against the national forces, as the invasion of Ukraine by the criminal regime of Vladimir Putin has already been.

The European Commission has just admitted that it uses public money to finance NGOs and media outlets to act against the conservative democratic forces that resist the Green Pact, socialism and the suicidal policy of Agenda 2030, of which the EU is the spearhead throughout the world. And it is so to the misfortune of Europeans, poorer every day and less free every day. But there we are; meanwhile, all the usual media and the usual parties live in the delightful consensus that everything is Donald Trump’s fault.

Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.