Very interesting... When I think of the "center-left globalists" who seemed overwhelmingly powerful in Obama's era, I think primarily of Merkel, Obama, Soros, Hillary Clinton, David Cameron, and Trudeau, who are mostly gone or waning. That faction is still very much around, but they seem a lot weaker, and fading.
It makes me a bit uncomfortable, since while I don't like that faction at all, I also don't like the nationalists who seem to be picking up steam. I do very much hope that the EU crashes and burns, though, since the EU is a totally anti-freedom institution run by a small handful of people who want to engineer society to their whims, and having many small independent states tends to provide more total freedom than fewer large ones.
I don't follow German politics much; how do things look there? Will there be any actual change from the status quo? It looks like the Green Party is gaining, but that sounds like a group that would want to just tweak things around the edges, not make major changes.
While this may not be fully correct, I do think that this is a reaction of the policies that were created under the Merkel (and her coalitions) government. Some people feel that the ones that they most align with is with these far right groups (which are crazily picking up steam in Germany of all places.
I don't think we're going to see much real change though, as Germany is typically pretty leftist in all of its polices and these groups show no ability to form a government among people that are just right shifting when it comes to policy.
Probably no real change, just a little closer to the middle from a pretty far left leaning political electorate to begin with.
Not a fan of the EU as well, seems like a pretty horrid system if you're a member state. At least in the sense of giving up your ability to have control over economic legislation (and other things, as we've seen the EU delving into as of current)
