Who had MEGA on their bingo card?
Europe isn't interested in Building Back Better. They want to be GREAT!
EUROPE (GLOB)—Once as a child I built a little model of a house out of sugar cubes. It looked great and felt solid. My sister dumped water on it, and just like that it crumbled into a sticky mess. And I threw a tantrum, just like many progressive talking heads are doing now after watching their hopes and dreams of a progressive utopia melt away.
One may wonder why Trump was elected twice. It’s kind of simple. The Woke Order, seeking to become the New World Order, assumed that everyone that was not a white male was all aboard the Build Back Better train. What does Build Back Better mean? Nothing. Build Back Better doesn’t resonate with anyone. Make America great again does. Even its detractors understood what Make America Great Again meant. And for a large swath of voters, MAGA meant rejecting outlandish ideas that defy reason. In many ways, MAGA simply means, “Just say ‘No’ to Woke.”
The progressive edifice was built out of sugar cubes. Reality washed over it on November 5th, and it dissolved. Progressives are mostly just throwing tantrums in response, but no one cares what they think anymore. Which takes us over to Europe. Leading up to this election, the drum being beat was that Europe did not want another Trump administration.
But look at the source. Left leaning media on both sides of the pond. The reality on the ground is that Italy (Meloni), Hungary (Orbán), France (Le Pen gaining traction), the Netherlands (Wilders’ surprise victory), and Germany (AfD surging) all indicate a shift toward nationalism and skepticism of woke policies—aligning more with Trump than Biden or Harris.
It seems that Europe is deciding that trading the wisdom of the ages for the slogans of the moment may be a bad plan. Europe wasn’t built on vibes and rhetoric—it was built on sacrifice and tradition. And there seems to be a realization that sacrifice and tradition are more than just “White Patriarchy” and these values don’t need to be dismantled.
This same dynamic is playing out across the Atlantic. Just as American voters have rejected dubious social and economic programs and policies, Europe is showing signs of a similar reckoning. This shift isn't theoretical. Concrete evidence from across Europe shows a growing resistance to DEI policies and progressive overreach:
Whitehall’s biggest departments dump Stonewall diversity scheme
Every major government department has left a diversity scheme run by the charity Stonewall after a string of controversies over gender ideology, The Times has learnt. - Source
Trump will roll back diversity targets. The UK must follow suit
I have just come off the phone with the very angry chief executive of one of Britain’s fastest-growing companies, one specialising in precision engineering. He is fuming because his top investors have told him to be more “diverse “ in the recruitment of a new chairman and another non-executive director. - Source
Employers are backing away from EDI — a monster they cannot tame
If you asked someone in all seriousness at work to “explore micro-aggressions on the intersection of the protected characteristics” they would, as my family euphemism has it, tell you to go to the Foreign Office.
Such unintelligible word salads are not the only reason that EDI, DEI and all the other in-the-know acronyms for equality, diversity and inclusion has [sic] fallen into serious disrepute with senior leaders. - Source
Trump and Orban: what their right-wing bromance means for Europe
Underpinning their relationship are “shared values” between American and Hungarian conservatives that include “protecting the border, safeguarding families and defending our Judeo-Christian heritage”, claims Miklos Szantho, chief organiser of CPAC Hungary, a “global platform of anti-globalists” that holds annual meetings in Budapest.
Orban’s admirers across the Atlantic also appear impressed that 14 years after becoming prime minister, he is still in power and has largely remade the country in his own image. When Hungary took over the rotating EU presidency in July, it was under the slogan “Make Europe Great Again”. - Source
Europe is waking up. The collapse of progressive illusions is not just an American phenomenon but a transatlantic reckoning. The idea that tradition and cultural continuity are relics of an outdated past is proving to be a sugar-cube illusion—easily washed away when confronted with reality.
From Italy to Hungary, from Britain’s corporate boardrooms to France’s streets, the calls for border security, merit-based hiring, and a return to historical values are taking shape.
The tantrums of those who built their house out of sugar cubes will continue. But, if you had MEGA on your bingo card, don’t consider it luck. You were just paying attention.
Oh, and if you like The Glob, you could buy Mark a cigar, or part of one.