European leaders divided over how far to accommodate Trump’s ‘wrecking ball’ politics and foreign policy
US Democrats will use a security summit this weekend to urge European leaders to stand up to Donald Trump, with the continent divided over how to keep the unpredictable US president on side.
Democrats at the annual Munich Security Conference will include some of Trump’s most outspoken critics, such as the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Arizona senator Ruben Gallego and the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
Newsom has already urged Europeans to realise that “grovelling to Trump’s needs” makes them “look pathetic on the world stage”, telling reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month he “should have brought a bunch of knee pads”.
I just like him because he at least understands there is a serious problem with healthcare in this country and it needs changed. While I dont doubt he’s probably not for universal, if we’re not going to get a actual leftist. He’d be the one I choose
And he also said tariffs hurt every American and we are the ones who pay it.
I mean, I hope we don’t end up in a situation where he’s the guy on the ballot. I really don’t think a billionaire is going to fix much. I don’t think they should be an actual thing that exists, but that’s beside the point. I’d vote for an actual working class champion in the primary though and hope to get the opportunity to vote for them in the main election. And if it ended up being a billionaire on the ballot vs. another MAGA, obviously I’m voting for the candidate that has the best chance defeat the MAGA because I was raised right and despise Nazis. But we’re in this mess in no small part because of the billionaires and wannabes, so I’m getting tired of picking less-bad when we should be running a real champion for progressive ideas to help raise working people.