MAGA going international
MAGA media heavyweights are intervening in elections around the world, increasingly obsessed with exporting President Trump’s brand of right-wing populism beyond America’s borders.
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- Why it matters: What began as a nationalist reaction to America’s perceived decline has evolved into a global ideological crusade, Axios’ Tal Axelrod reports.
⚡ Now at the apex of its domestic power, MAGA is rallying behind candidates who share its views on immigration, globalism and the fight for “Western Civilization.”
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- “We believe the fight for freedom and conservative values doesn’t stop at America’s borders,” Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chair Matt Schlapp told Axios.
MAGA-aligned candidates have been competitive in a spate of recent elections, emboldening pro-Trump influencers to engage more actively in foreign politics.
🇵🇱 Poland: Conservative presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki is headed to a runoff against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski today, in a race MAGA media is treating as a bellwether for Europe’s political right.
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- CPAC just held its first-ever event in Poland, where Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the extraordinary step of endorsing Nawrocki and denouncing Trzaskowski as “an absolute train wreck.”
🇷🇴 Romania: MAGA leaders — including Vice President Vance — excoriated Romanian authorities for annulling the results of December’s election and banning the leading far-right candidate over allegations of Russian interference.
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- In last week’s re-run, MAGA podcasters like Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon rallied behind pro-Trump candidate George Simion, who even described himself as running “on the MAGA ticket.”
🇬🇧 UK: The insurgent Reform Party, led by arch-Brexiteer and Bannon friend Nigel Farage, is leading in British polls less than a year after the center-left Labour Party won a landslide election.
🇩🇪 Germany: Vance, Elon Musk and scores of pro-Trump influencers have championed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which had its best-ever showing in elections earlier this year.
🇮🇪 Ireland: Former UFC champion Conor McGregor has teased a longshot bid for the Irish presidency on an anti-immigration platform.
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- McGregor was hosted by Trump at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day, and appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast in April.
🇰🇷 South Korea: Bannon recorded a segment of his show Tuesday boosting the conservative candidate in South Korea’s June 3 snap presidential election.
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- Some MAGA figures have spread the theory that former conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol — impeached and removed after declaring martial law — was ousted in a China-backed coup.
🌐 MAGA’s foreign focus isn’t entirely new: Trump supporters have long idolized populist strongmen like Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
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- But the movement is no longer just cheering on incumbents: It’s actively trying to shape new political outcomes.
“The good news is that after 10 long years, the institutional MAGA movement realizes the power in having friends overseas,” said Raheem Kassam, former Farage adviser and current editor of The National Pulse.
…and we are seeing the culture war washing up on our shores in the form of NZF and the Atlas Network influence over ACT.
Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire Jim Grenon is trying to take over NZME with his anti-trans, climate denial, anti-vaccine editorial stance.
Māori have cultural memory of the first wave of white settler capitalist exploitation resource taking, they have the flax roots knowledge of what sustainability and environmental protection looks like, it is no wonder that international right wing think tanks always aim to attack indigenous rights first to enable the next generation of exploitative resource stripping.
On a global warming planet, the Treaty can protect all our rights when corporations come with their vampire capitalism.
International corporations and radicalised alt-Right Billionaires are pushing a white Christofascist super state cargo cult minus the cargo.
MAGA is Orange fascism that leans into culture war revenge fantasies and social media hate algorithms to feed its paranoia and subscription.
We can no longer pretend to be blind to the real agendas occurring here in NZ!
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Winston is becoming NZs own orange dictator .Seymoure is becoming the enabler and Luxon the loser as he is so fucken weak he needs them to wipe his arse .
The RSB is the trogon horse for international vampires literally taking ova our country & its potential effects on the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) and environmental laws are significant.
The RSB could limit the government’s ability to pass laws that uphold Treaty obligations if those laws are seen as infringing on strict regulatory standards (e.g., property rights or economic freedoms).
Some interpretations suggest the bill might prioritize individual property rights over collective Māori rights under the Treaty, such as those related to land and resource management.
The bill may allow courts to issue “declarations of inconsistency” if legislation (including laws protecting Māori interests) is deemed to violate its regulatory principles.
The bill’s emphasis on minimizing regulatory burdens could make it harder to enforce strict environmental regulations, such as those limiting pollution or protecting endangered species.
Laws like the RMA (soon to be replaced by the Natural and Built Environment Act) could be challenged if deemed too restrictive on property or business rights.
Regulations enforcing emissions reductions (e.g., the Zero Carbon Act) or fossil fuel restrictions could be scrutinized if they are seen as infringing on economic freedoms.
Companies or individuals could use the bill’s principles to challenge environmental protections in court, leading to delays or weakened enforcement.
Some legal experts say the bill could shift power to the judiciary, allowing courts to question laws passed by Parliament.
The Policy paper written by the Heritage foundation “Project 2025” is a wet dream for far-right political agitators and Winnie & Seymour have been unleashing it on unsuspected naive sheeples of Aotearoa NZers
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