Trump's Victory and the Prospects for Identism in Europe

The article analyses the interaction between D. Trump and european identists and the impact of the US president's policy on the prospects of the identist movements in Europe. The ideological struggle is presented in the form of a confrontation between identism or traditionalism and anti-identism as the ideology of left-liberal elites or “liberal democracy”. Trumpism and right-wing populism in this context are manifestations of identism as wider ideology. It is concluded that the impact of American Trumpism on european non-system movements is predetermined by the mutual influence of the United States and EU in all spheres. At the same time, the identists, due to their orientation towards nation-states interests, the consolidation around national traditions, their own sovereignty in various spheres, are less inclined to spread their ideology internationally and less consolidated that anti-identists. The struggle of anti-identists and identists is not national American, but international, global in nature. The Ukrainian and other regional conflicts have receded into the background in the eyes of the identists. Trumpism contributes to the crystallization of the ideology of disparate identitarian parties and movements, and the softening of policies held by left-liberal elites to marginalise them.

trumpism, identism, right-wing populism, ideological struggle, parties and political movements, USA, European Union