Donald Trump’s opposition to climate policy and mass immigration is putting massive pressure on Europe. There, preparations are underway to support California Governor Gavin Newsom. He is expected, as the 48th president, to prevent a continuation of Trump’s policies. [some emphasis, links added]
America remains a country of high social mobility and upward opportunity — something we no longer see on today’s European continent.
It may sound kitschy to many Europeans, yet America’s vibrant economic centers, high geographic mobility, and the flexibility of its people still create the conditions for this unique phenomenon. …
Put simply, under Trump, American nationalism and a rejection of ideological engineering have returned to the political agenda.
With intense competition and market-driven policies at home, alongside a trade and tariff strategy reminiscent of presidents like Alexander Hamilton and William McKinley, this forms a clear countermodel to his predecessors.
They had significantly advanced the European model of climate socialism as a tool of power consolidation.
For the record: it was President Barack Obama who, in 2009, identified carbon dioxide as a lever of power, integrated European regulatory frameworks, and began systematically undermining the traditional American values of individual liberty, mobility, free markets, and minimal government.
The public outrage over Trump’s reversal in key questions of political power architecture stems largely from the fact that too many had grown comfortable in a world of subsidies, NGOs, and public-sector employment.
European climate socialists now pin their hopes on Gavin Newsom. In two and a half years, he is expected to enter the White House and initiate a return to the status quo ante.
In Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and London, they are likely already counting the days until a possible political shift in Washington.
Trump has fallen out of favor with Europeans because his agenda of prioritizing American national interests mercilessly exposes the ideological contradictions and intellectual weakness of European socialism. …
Yet it is not Trump’s fault that the European social model lies in ruins.
In September 2023, 8,000 male invaders arrived in Lampedusa in just 24 hours. Today, they roam Europe committing crimes. A true apocalypse. pic.twitter.com/zSb0p84wNE
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 9, 2026
Europe suffers from a lack of self-criticism and a general unwillingness to confront its own ideological failures. Meanwhile, nuclear cooling towers are demolished, coal seams flooded, and gas infrastructure dismantled.
The politics of ideological immaturity collide with Washington’s hard-nosed approach and the necessary repair work on a deeply damaged social and economic body.
No matter who the Republican Party nominates as Trump’s potential successor — be it J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio — the German press has already made its choice.
It longs for America’s return to European-style climate socialism: more comfortable, more predictable, and promising continued access to public funding — even for its own future.
To underline this, the German weekly WirtschaftsWoche (Business Week) recently published a guest article by Gavin Newsom.
Newsom seeks to persuade foreign governments to view California as an independent economic entity — the world’s fifth-largest economy — still embodying the spirit of boundless opportunity.
The implicit message is clear: California’s economic stagnation is not the result of high taxes or aggressive climate policies in the European mold — nor of its war on oil and gas — but solely the fault of Donald Trump’s tariff policy.
California is Europe in miniature — a shadow of the Old Continent cast across the United States. It now finds itself exposed by Washington’s market-driven reforms, which throw its model into stark contrast.
The results are increasingly visible: one system succeeds, the other falters.
In his guest contribution, Newsom naturally avoids addressing the consequences of California’s climate policies. As in Europe, CO2 costs are placing an enormous strain on industry.
Companies are leaving — just as they are in Germany — and relocating to states like Texas or Florida, where industrial production is still valued. …
The Sunshine State, once a place of aspiration for so many, now resembles — especially in its urban centers — the kind of social decay familiar from Europe’s migration-driven slums.
The France that no one will show you. If you import fourth world you become fourth world. pic.twitter.com/o9UrZx1UAm
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 9, 2026
Hardly a model to be proud of — yet, for WirtschaftsWoche, seemingly the ideal form of postmodern urbanity.
Newsom frequently points to Silicon Valley’s success, the powerhouse of digital innovation. Yet this engine of growth quite literally fell into his lap; he has contributed nothing of substance to enhancing the state’s innovative capacity.
Silicon Valley existed before Newsom — and it will exist after him, if necessary, in a different location, in a new form, after escaping the suffocating grip of bureaucratic overreach.
A final word on those Europeans who hope for Trump’s failure: with Newsom and a return to European climate socialism and mass immigration, capital flight from the EU might temporarily slow.
It is entirely possible that European leadership could buy time by pointing to a faltering America. But it would change nothing about Europe’s decline — only delay the inevitable.
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