A Donald Trump victory in the US presidential elections would shift Europe and the entire world away from “cultural Marxism”, a European People’s Party (EPP) member of the European Parliament has said.
Speaking to Brussels Signal, Branko Grims — a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party — said a new Republican administration in Washington would help move the European Union away from what he said were the problems brought about by modern left-wing politics.
Instead, Brussels would be more likely to focus on more basic issues, such as the economy, immigration and Europe’s declining birthrate, he claimed.
“I just hope that in the United States, in the next 24 hours, Donald Trump will be elected, because that will shift the United States and — because of its power — the whole world, especially the Western world, away from Cultural Marxism, away from all the rubbish like illegal migration, LGBT propaganda, ideological propaganda, and of course, the so-called ‘green’ shift, which is green just because green is the colour of money,” he said a day before the US election on November 5.
“We can go back to entrepreneurship and the economy. I think that would be good for the world.”
Grims expressed scepticism as to the likelihood of democrat hopeful Kamala Harris winning the race in a fair manner.
“Kamala can only win if they cheat in the elections,” he stated, adding that a Democrat victory would leave Europe with “much bigger problems”.
“Because, in that case, we will have dangers inside Europe. Not only on the borders. And they will accumulate.”
The Slovenian representative placed far more importance on US elections than the ongoing European commissioners’ hearings in the European Parliament, saying that the latter event was more to do with appearance than any real attempt by Eurocrats to test the proposed candidates.
“This is more or less a show for the public,” he said, adding that there “may be one or two” instances of candidates getting the boot but that the vast majority of EC President Ursula von der Leyen’s appointments would go unopposed.
“All the main powers want the new Commission before the end of the year. If they cancel one or two, then there will be no new one before the new year.”
Even those in the European Parliament appeared to be more concerned with events across the Atlantic than what was going on within the institution, something Grims put down to what he said was Europe’s rapidly declining influence.
“They know that Europe is weak,” he said. “If Europe was powerful, we would talk about what we will achieve.”
“But all those [MEPs] who do this this week, they know very well what is happening in the United States is more important than what is happening in Europe.
“As a matter of fact, it is,” he added.
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Grims also expressed frustration at the selection of commissioner candidates the EP had been presented with, expressing concern that its makeup did not accurately reflect the will of European Union voters.
“I think the main problem is still the leader of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,” he said.
“There should be new names, as people voted more to the right. So we should respect that.
“Things will probably turn a little, but not enough to make all the changes that Europe needs. Europe needs to transition far away from the Cultural Marxism that has flooded European institutions,” he said.
“It was clear. People wanted, from my point of view, the right coalition, and everything should be done that way. But unfortunately, some barriers have been created towards the right.”
The SDS representative also spoke out against the Slovenian Government’s decision to put forward Marta Kos as his country’s commissioner.
“It’s ridiculous that such a person would be the commissioner here,” he said, repeating his party’s allegations that she may have served as an informant for the secret service of the now-defunct Communist State of Yugoslavia.
“She was an informer to the former UDBA,” he claimed, adding that the EP had previously passed resolutions saying that former close collaborators with Europe’s dead Soviet dictatorships should be removed from their posts.
“That especially goes for the highest level of the European institutions.”
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