Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen headlined a rally in Madrid on Saturday by Europe’s biggest far-right bloc, buoyed by Donald Trump’s return to power and calling for “a 180-degree pivot”.

Patriots for Europe has realigned extreme-right forces in the European Union. It became the European Parliament’s third-largest force after Orban helped launch it last year to pull the bloc towards the far right.

“Yesterday we were the heretics. Today we are the mainstream… We are the future,” proclaimed Orban, sharing the stage with other leading extreme-right nationalists including Dutch anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and former Czech premier Andrej Babis.

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    Oh for FUCK sake! They really are all falling in line behind Musk, aren’t they?

    … I need to find out if the Danish right wing parties are thinking of joining them…

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      You know they are. Morten Messerschmidt has already been kissing Musks and Trumps asses on Twitter and he visited Mar-a-lago shortly before Trump was inaugurated.

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        Yeah I know. That was a, pretty hurrah moment for me. A Danish person on the floor of the EU, “… Let me use words you can understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off!”

        But Denmark does have its more extreme elements, the kind of “Denmark first above all else” anti-European types.