From the January 2019 issue of Harper’s:
Donald Trump is a Good President
One foreigner’s perspective
By Michel Houellebecq, John Cullen (Translator)… It’s my belief that we in Europe have neither a common language, nor common values, nor common interests, that, in a word, Europe doesn’t exist, and that it will never constitute a people or support a possible democracy (see the etymology of the term), simply because it doesn’t want to constitute a people. In short, Europe is just a dumb idea that has gradually turned into a bad dream, from which we shall eventually wake up. …
It seems that President Trump recently declared, “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist!” Me too, precisely so. Nationalists can talk to one another; with internationalists, oddly enough, talking doesn’t work so well.
It’s interesting how Trump tends to appeal to, as Hillary would say, deplorables, such as Houellebecq, author of Submission.
