{"id":5453,"date":"2026-07-11T04:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:07:30","slug":"populist-politicians-on-the-right-and-left-take-a-page-out-of-donald-trumps-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"Populist politicians on the right and left take a page out of Donald Trump\u2019s playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            The world\u2019s modern populists are discovering a common trait that seems to serve them more than the voters they claim to champion.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5443\">Vance leasing part of multimillion-dollar Virginia farm as an additional residence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            When scandal strikes, it\u2019s just fresh evidence of their self-fulfilling prophecy that a shady cabal of \u201cdeep state\u201d elites bent on suppressing democracy is out to get them.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            On both sides of the Atlantic this week, politicians seemed to ask themselves WWTD: What would Trump do?\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In Maine, former Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner blamed the collapse of his campaign over allegations of sexual assault and dating violence, which he denies, on distant party grandees plotting to kill his progressive movement.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In Britain, Brexit leader Nigel Farage quit his parliamentary seat amid questions over his personal financing that he dismissed as an \u201cestablishment\u201d ruse. He will put the question of his conduct to \u201cthe people\u201d in a special election that has taken on a surreal turn, since his chief opponent may be a man dressed as a trash can.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And in France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will run for president next year wearing an ankle monitor after her conviction was upheld in a case in which Le Pen, her National Rally party and 11 senior members were convicted of embezzling millions of euros of public funds to pay party workers in France. Echoing Trump, Le Pen brands the accusations as a \u201cchasse aux sorci\u00e8res\u201d \u2014 a witch hunt \u2014 by state authorities.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The populists\u2019 intoxicating implication is that their own difficulties only prove their case: that they are proposing such a radical reordering of political power that nefarious official forces will stop at nothing to bring them down. In some cases, allegations of wrongdoing can even bolster a populist\u2019s reputation as a breaker of political rules.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Tapping into voter anger\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s not that these populist leaders haven\u2019t tapped into legitimate political sentiment at a moment of global turmoil.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump coined his purest definition of his personal populist appeal in his first inaugural address in January 2017, surrounded by the eminences of the nation\u2019s political, legal, economic and national security establishments.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cFor too long, a small group in our nation\u2019s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost,\u201d he said. \u201cWashington flourished \u2014 but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered \u2014 but the jobs left, and the factories closed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            All modern populists mine a seam of deep public discontent, arguing that globalist forces created a new class of richly rewarded elites who have further stacked the deck. On the right, Le Pen, Trump and Farage also weaponized resentment over immigration. This trio grew their movements for years and shrewdly recognized the potency of insurgent political themes while malfunctioning central governments slumbered.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Democrats are awaiting the heir to Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who used populist economic appeals in his two unsuccessful presidential campaigns that nevertheless built a fervent progressive movement. Platner had seemed a herald of a new generation that could help lead an anti-establishment movement on the left, though his career now seems doomed after he dropped out of the Maine Senate race. He found early success, however, in giving voice to frustration among activists with moderate party leaders. In the process, he sparked debate over the potential of a Trump-style insurgency in the Democratic Party.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graham Platner stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders, during a\" class=\"wp-image-5449\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8ee8d32bc6d3c8a56122d50a2c423880.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8ee8d32bc6d3c8a56122d50a2c423880.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8ee8d32bc6d3c8a56122d50a2c423880-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Graham Platner stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders, during a &#8220;Fighting Oligarchy&#8221; event in Portland, Maine on May 25.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Sophie Park\/Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The modern populist wave heralded by Britain\u2019s vote to leave the European Union in 2016, which waned with Trump\u2019s defeat in 2020, is now roaring again across the Atlantic with outspoken US support from leaders like Vice President JD Vance. It is being exacerbated by a sense among voters in the US, Britain, France and Germany that centrist establishment politicians who\u2019ve repeatedly vowed to enact change keep failing to deliver.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Yet the quick reflex to distill personal political crises into a cult of victimhood by populist clarions \u2014 and their insistence that allegations of wrongdoing represent nothing more than power plays by hidden elites \u2014 gives reason for concern about how such leaders use their movements. Are they really motivated only by mending a pervasive sense of despair among their voters? Or are they cynically exploiting disgust with political systems to mask their own failings and to aim for vast personal power?\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      STREAMING NOW\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TIP_Texted_Homepage_Feature_Card_1440x810.png\" class=\"wp-image-371\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/68eb89489a2f41731dcf40ecf2f38223.png\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>CNN<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>How presidential power has grown far beyond what the nation\u2019s founders envisioned<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Trump showed the way\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            As Trump has demonstrated, building a narrative of political persecution can provide rocket fuel for campaigns. In 2024, as he faced multiple criminal and civil charges \u2014 all of which he denied \u2014 and after he was convicted in a hush money case, the president positioned himself as an agent of his voters\u2019 fury against those in power. The move unified the Republican Party behind him and ended its presidential primary race in his favor after it initially appeared that there was limited appetite among the party grassroots for his return to power.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5441\">Bipartisan senators announce agreement with Trump administration on Russia sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI am your retribution,\u201d Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2023.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Supporters react as Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in March 2023.\" class=\"wp-image-5450\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0f2bc4f7b08def38d00586699a375656.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0f2bc4f7b08def38d00586699a375656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0f2bc4f7b08def38d00586699a375656-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Supporters react as Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in March 2023.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Evelyn Hockstein\/Reuters\/File<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Platner, campaigning as a plain-speaking blue-collar oysterman and Marine Corps veteran, seemed to many progressives like an authentic archetype Democrats sorely needed to dispel their elite metropolitan image. He seemed the antidote to candidates who spoke in the language of liberal position papers as the party struggles to find a political vernacular that appeals to regular Americans.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Like Trump, Platner tried to turn controversies over his personality into evidence of a wider conspiracy to derail a campaign that was perilous to Washington\u2019s monopoly on power. But ultimately, he lacked Trump\u2019s Teflon hide. He said he\u2019d quit the Senate race on Wednesday after a woman told CNN and Politico that he raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship. Platner denies the allegation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But he rationalized his exit not as a personal moment of accountability but as proof he was too threatening to the powerful to be allowed to succeed. \u201cIt\u2019s not the false allegations though that have brought us to where we are. It\u2019s the fact that they are being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us,\u201d Platner said in a video announcing his decision. \u201cWe live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It is a system built structurally to make sure that movements like ours cannot flourish.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But this argument is misleading. Platner\u2019s campaign was not a victim of a conspiratorial plot by the political establishment and the media, even if his adversaries were surely keen to see opposition research used against him. It ended after two women went public with allegations about him, which he denies.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Farage also denies all wrongdoing. The leader of the Reform UK party has been tipped as a possible prime minister after the next general election, which must take place by August 2029. This would be a stunning achievement by an insurgent leader who carved out an image as an everyman who loves a pint down at the pub.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nigel Farage announces his resignation as a member of parliament while giving a statement on his\" class=\"wp-image-5451\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/63e1eb04fa3523ead7c085839b6565bc.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/63e1eb04fa3523ead7c085839b6565bc.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/63e1eb04fa3523ead7c085839b6565bc-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Nigel Farage announces his resignation as a member of parliament while giving a statement on his &#8220;future in public life&#8221; at Millbank Tower in London, on July 7.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            But now Farage is fighting allegations he failed to declare millions of pounds\u2019 worth of gifts from wealthy donors. He denies wrongdoing amid an investigation by Parliament\u2019s standards watchdog.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He\u2019s planning to convince voters in his gritty coastal constituency that a conspiracy is at play. \u201cThis will be a people versus the establishment by\u2011election,\u201d he said in a video.  The new vote, Farage said, is a \u201cchance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment, to frankly tell them where to go.\u201d Channeling Trump in 2024, he closed by saying: \u201cIf I win, you win.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Like Farage, Le Pen says the French people should have the \u201cfinal say\u201d on her fate. And like Trump, she\u2019s seeking to portray synergy between her own treatment and a populace she claims has been persecuted by the state\u2019s negligence. \u201cThere are many French people who are going through hardships, and we too are going through hardships,\u201d Le Pen said on a prime-time interview on the TF1 television station. \u201cThese trials, I believe, have strengthened us.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Le Pen predates Trump as a populist pioneer and has sanded down the harsher edges of the far-right movement once led by her late father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. She\u2019s set for her fourth attempt at winning the presidency and possibly her best chance of capturing ultimate power in France.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after the verdict of her appeal trial, in Paris, on July 7.\" class=\"wp-image-5452\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/07f7f95c5d0b58bb1705bc5889516c7c.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/07f7f95c5d0b58bb1705bc5889516c7c.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/07f7f95c5d0b58bb1705bc5889516c7c-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after the verdict of her appeal trial, in Paris, on July 7.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Aurelien Morissard\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            And as CNN\u2019s Melissa Bell reported from Paris, Le Pen has something else in common with Trump: If she wins the election next year, any lingering legal woes could be swept away immediately by presidential immunity.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The coming elections in the UK and France will test whether Farage and Le Pen can emulate Trump\u2019s political escapology.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In that first inaugural address back in 2017, Trump charged that \u201cthe establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But a decade later, controversies, scandals and allegations surrounding the new populists are creating a moment of irony as they edge closer to power.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            They are accused of using their movements to protect not the people overlooked or harmed by the political and economic establishment \u2014 but themselves.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5439\">Trump says the Iran ceasefire is \u2018OVER.\u2019 What now?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s modern populists are discovering a common trait that seems to serve them more than the voters they claim to champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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