George Simion, a nationalist and vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, has won Romania’s first-round presidential election after capitalizing on widespread anti-establishment sentiment.
George Simion, a nationalist and vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, has won Romania’s first-round presidential election after capitalizing on widespread anti-establishment sentiment.
And then he calls himself perfectly aligned with MAGA. :D
Unfortunately, MAGA is anti-NATO, “pay Donald so your house won’t catch fire on a case by case basis”.
If I was naive, I would consider if he’s clueless or a liar. Since he’s a well educated man, he cannot be clueless - he’s a liar, of course.
He earned his first political points surfing on anti-vaccination waves. Basically “don’t tell us to be reasonable and protect our health, it’s our choice if we want to suffer”.
Now apparently, he’s the embodiment of “don’t tell us to be reasonable and choose moderate politicians, it’s our choice if we want to suffer”.
He’s capitalising on resentment against the court intervening in elections, after Georgescu “forgot” to tell about unknown (read: Russian) actors backing him with thousands of accounts and millions of money. The court did its job. People just weren’t aware that it was a court’s job to supervise elections.
I wonder if he gets elected. It would not bring any good.