April 13, 2026
Trump's endorsement again turned out to be a predicator that the endorsed candidate would go down in well deserved flames as Péter Magyar defeated the illiberal democrat darling of the far right Viktor Orbán.
Also a figure of the Hungarian right, and in fact once an Orbán protege, he is a sign that even in a country that's be converted into the model of an illiberal democracy and hence adored by the Heritage Foundation set, a corrupt autocrat can come down. He's also a sign that support by Trump means nothing in much of the world, and is becoming meaningless in the United States.
Orbán, who is not insane as Trump is much of the time, does deserve credit for conceding defeat.
April 14, 2026
Canadian liberals gained a majority in the Canadian parliament through by elections yesterday.
While less clear, the Donald Trump Effect, i.e., repulsion over his vile politics, is moving everything to the left that's associated with him.
June 22, 2026
Colombian Trump backed right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly won Colombia's presidential election, apparently.
August 31, 2026
Icelandic voters rejected a proposal to negotiate with the EU for admittance.
September 7, 2026
I frankly don't grasp how German elections work, but Alternative für Deutschland, (AfD) won state elections in Saxony-Anhalt but fell short of a majority. The party is a far right German party and about as close to the Nazi Party as a German political party legally can be.
It's rise can be seen as part of a rise of the far right throughout the Western world, although the first two countries with far right parity's who gained control of their governments, Hungary and Poland, have subsequently seen those party's fall out of power after governing for some time. Presently, the only other European country to be governed by a far right party is Italy, which is presently governed by Fratelli d'Italia, which has its roots in the Fascist Party.
Fratelli d'Italia is interesting here as well, as while even its symbol shows it rising out of Fascism, it's very much moderated itself since achieving power, converting itself from a populist far right party into more of a right wing party. Time will tell if the AfD is able to do that, although it already criticizes Trump, the head of a proto fascist party himself, on some things.
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