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A former top French civil servant has said France should change its electoral traditions to prevent a populist victory for Marine Le Pen. 

Former French minister Arnaud Montebourg has claimed that populist party leader Marine Le Pen could win next year’s presidential elections.

Italian populist Senator Matteo Salvini and the conservative Central European premiers Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, of Hungary and Poland, will meet to discuss a conservative alliance within the European Union.

A shift in the corporate world with big American companies embracing so-called “woke” leftist policies along with increased retirements among the old guard of the GOP is fueling a populist surge inside the Republican Party, a new memo from GOP insiders reveals.

Germany’s federal domestic intelligence service has allegedly declared the Alternative for Germany (AfD) a suspected extremist group, allowing the agency to actively spy on the populist party.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), who represents the urban city of Louisville, shot arrows at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for not being “representative of most of the country” and lamented his influence as a crucial swing vote in the U.S. Senate.

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he is “pretty sure” Donald Trump would be the GOP presidential nominee if he runs in 2024.

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and MEP Gilbert Collard were in court this week as prosecutors demand a 5,000 euro fine against the two for posting pictures of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter in 2015.

Popeyes Chicken launched a “Free Tendies Offer” on Monday as part of a promotional campaign built upon the recent GameStop stock surge.

Nigel Farage has hailed the GameStop rebellion as the natural successor to the populist movement which carried Brexit and Donald Trump to victory in 2016.

The Hungarian government is following the Polish government in moving against Big Tech, vowing action against the “shadowbanning” of “Christian, conservative, [and] right-wing opinions”.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage celebrated the UK finally leaving the EU’s institutions, saying that the historic moment only happened because the people rebelled against the establishment and that now, leavers “own the status quo”.

Three of four GOP supporters want their legislators to “be more like President [Donald] Trump” in 2021, according to a Rasmussen survey of likely voters.

Democrats got Joe Biden into the White House but are alarmed at the political power of President Donald Trump’s populist economic platform, admits the pro-Democrat Washington Post.

Finnish politician Laura Huhtasaari told the European Parliament she envies Britain, and that the EU should “look in the mirror” to discover why it wants to leave and countries like Norway and Switzerland have no interest in joining.

The year 2020 was marked by the global coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said Thursday, but also saw a worrisome a surge in “nationalism, racism, and xenophobia.”

Hungarian politicians and conservative journalists slammed George Clooney as an “imbecile” who could not find their country on a map after he suggested the country’s prime minister spreads “anger and hate”.

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused the European Union of wielding a “propaganda bludgeon” against his country like the communist regime of old. 

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lambasted billionaire plutocrat George Soros as “one of the most corrupt people in the world” after he called on the EU to make Hungary and Poland submit to “open society” values.

EU member states Hungary and Poland have followed through on their threat to block the continental power bloc’s seven-year budget, after Brussels attempted to push it through with conditions the populist nations said were akin to “political enslavement”.

“Trumpism without Trump” is what America needs in four years, said conservative author Ann Coulter during a speech at the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday night hosted by the university’s Young Conservatives of Texas.

ROME — Pope Francis suggested Saturday that Europe is repeating the errors of pre-Nazi Germany by allowing new anti-immigration nationalisms to take hold.

The populist Sweden Democrats (SD) have seen a surge in support in Stockholm, as another poll shows a rapid decline in national support for the current Social Democrat prime minister.

Pope Francis has decried the resurgence of populism and nationalism on the world stage, calling instead for greater multilateralism.

Pope Francis makes his best case for multilateralism in a new teaching letter, calling for more authority for supranational organizations like the United Nations against resurgent populism and nationalism.

Only about 25 percent of Latinos identify with Joe Biden’s progressive identity politics, while more than 60 percent of Latinos favor Donald Trump’s populist, pro-American pitch, according to a September 18 report in the New York Times.

A poll taken ahead of the regional election in the leftist stronghold of Apulia has revealed that the centre-right candidate backed by Matteo Salvini has a slight lead in the race.

Populist Italian Senator Matteo Salvini has announced he is considering launching a legal complaint against the leftist coalition government for aiding illegal migration.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government is set to purchase $1 billion worth of missiles from the U.S., the largest arms deal ever between the two countries.

A senior reporter for newspaper Aftonbladet has admitted the paper would label those against mass migration as fascists to stifle debate.

Polish president Andrzej Duda has seen off a challenge from the globalist Mayor of Warsaw in a tight presidential race.  

The Hungarian government has taken aim at the U.S. government-funded Freedom House organisation for claiming Hungary is no longer a “free country”, noting that its reports only say democracy is improving in the country when “Socialists and Liberals” hold office.

The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May blamed the forces of nationalism and populism for the scale of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, saying that countries should instead coalesce around “great multilateral institutions” such as the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Republican Party should always abide by its core principles, and yet at the same time, it should return to its Lincolnian roots, becoming the avowed party of first responders, blue-collars, and other frontline workers—and joined by, of course, soldiers, homemakers, and believers.  

The pro-family policies pursued by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government as an alternative to mass immigration are reaping dividends, with births up 9.4 per cent year on year.

Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats saw their worst-ever polling result in a new poll by Ipsos this week, as they remain behind the populist Sweden Democrats.