Accompanied by the chyron “Europe’s Shift to the Right”, socialist co-host Tony Dokoupil teased a story about the “surprise election triumph, a result that leaves a longtime U.S. ally close to control by a hardline opponent of both Islam and immigration” that’s “part of a larger trend, a move to the right across Europe.”
After a break and with the return of both that chyron and a second one that knocked the Dutch for picking a “controversial far-right leader,” Dokoupil huffed that the “populist turn to the right in some European countries” included “a longtime right-wing political leader” appearing “primed to be the next prime minister of the Netherlands” and buoys hopes of the National Rally party in France.
Foreign correspondent Chris Livesay had the story from Rome about Wilders’s “victory that shaken up politics across Europe where mass immigration and a struggling post-pandemic economy are triggering a backlash.”
Annnd there it is. “Backlash”, one of many tried-and-true phrases the liberal media deploy when talking about right-of-center victories. Drink!
[The Washington Post freaked out over it earlier, and for the same reason….
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