• radix@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’m not actually convinced it was Vance specifically. Their support seemed to grow a bit after the US election gave their movement a bit more legitimacy, but then started back the other way when people saw what it means in action. Vance’s visit was timed at roughly the peak, but, snark aside, it’s probably more correlation than causation.

    The actions of the Trump administration as a whole are a more plausible cause of any slight erosion of support.

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      11 days ago

      What’s happening in the American Reich is inspiring a very strong sense of European patriotism like I’ve never seen before among common people around me.

      It’s pretty ironic, yet makes sense, that European unity could be achieved this sad way.