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      This guy is too much of a sociopath to care about that. He tries to cover his hairy orange ass by diverting news to something else than the Epstein files.

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        I think it’s pretty likely that this is part of the plan. Massive refugee waves will destabilize the EU just in the way they want. Either the EU goes full “don’t come here”, with walls, camps, deportation, etc. which will dwarf the current US immigration situation (thus improving their image), or they go “refugees welcome” again, which will skyrocket right wing parties. And not few mainstream politicians will be too intimidated or otherwise compromised to call it out, so the uniformed citizen will just see that somehow “it’s raining immigrants” again and “politicians are not doing enough”. Not unsolvable, but close to a checkmate.

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          Either the EU goes full “don’t come here”, with walls, camps, deportation, etc. which will dwarf the current US immigration situation by far (thus improving their image),

          It’ll also directly lead to fascism in like half of Europe, which I think would be more impactful than some good PR for Trump.

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            Yeah basically either the main stream parties become right wingers or are voted out. But also, why are voters so stupid to not see through this obvious trap. Essentially, it is the right wingers who are “flooding” their beloved “western civilization” with immigrants, for their short-sighted goals. The least the opposition can do is call this out crystal clear on a 10 minutes tact. Hate the immigrants, then hate what’s sending them, not poor displaced people that don’t even want to be here and politicians with little realistic options.

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              But also, why are voters so stupid to not see through this obvious trap.

              Desperation. They want someone to do something for them, and with leftwing politics being moribund in the developed world and the only option promising that is the far right. Everything else is ultimately secondary.

              The least the opposition can do is call this out crystal clear on a 10 minutes tact.

              Except the mainstream opposition is also pro-capitalist imperialism. They hate leftwing politics more than they hate fascism, because one is much worse for their donors, so when it’s either or they’ll throw their lot with the fascists.

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                Moribund politics is center, not left wing, which is seeing increases all across the west as well. Not as much as right wing, because it’s not well funded, but that’s not intrinsically necessary.