Political scientist Laura K. Field explains the US right's love-hate relationship with Europe
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- In an interview with Handelsblatt, political scientist Laura K.
- Field analyzes the ideological connection of the MAGA movement to Europe and describes how the Trump administration is exporting it with money and political pressure.
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Why It Matters
Laura K. Field wrote the book “Furious Minds” about the intellectual forces behind the MAGA movement.
Political scientist Laura K. Field researches the MAGA movement. In an interview with Handelsblatt, she explains the US right's love-hate relationship with Europe - and how much of it is business.
US President Trump at a campaign event: Angry heads. Photo: AFP
London. Laura K. Field wrote a book about anger. However, the American political scientist's work “Furious Minds,” which was published at the end of last year, is less about angry citizens than about angry minds.
This refers to those intellectuals of the New Right who provide US President Donald Trump's “Make America great again” movement (MAGA) with the intellectual superstructure for an ideology. The Trump administration is now exporting these to Europe with money and political pressure.
“The Trumpists see themselves as the true heirs of European civilization and want to educate Europeans about their own roots,” says Field in an interview with Handelsblatt.
Open Questions
- How effective is the ideological export of the MAGA movement to Europe?
- Which European groups are reacting to this ideology?
