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>>they don't understand how deep-rooted anti-european sentiment is on the US right.
Compared to the deeper resentments towards Canada, Anti-European sentiment is like much more likely to evaporate post-Trump especially since the Rubio-types are the likely successor faction as opposed to Vance's whiny isolationism. Most of the "anti-european sentiment" is Yanks being irritated at perceptions of Europe not pulling its weight in the alliance while still snobbily looking down at Americans as backwards colonials who'll never be good enough for Paris, Berlin, and London. It's coupled with (and exacerbated) by the heavily distorted perceptions of Europe online, the ones you've observed about how the EU has "no free speech" and is under a secret Islamic dictatorship and whatnot. Trump had that deranged quest to annex Greenland, and it was like in the single digit percentages of support among the populace; a huge achievement for a man who has thirty percent of the country worshipping him as God.
Frankly, from my side of the pond, it looks like it's Europe who has no interest in bothering to salvage the relationships Trump is ruining after he dies and would happily chuck us out of NATO as soon as someone weak like Vance or an AOC type gets into the Oval Office. I constantly see Europeans gleefully boasting about how much more civilised than us you all are, how America is now a civilizational enemy like Russia and China and India, and how we were never needed as an ally in the first place. I won't deny that we are now a very unreliable ally under Trump, from the Greenland crisis to the random tariffs to the abandonment of Ukraine, and it is very much incumbent on us to earn back trust from our equal partners after Trump went out of his way to alienate you. But it betrays a deep misread of the American mindset to think we're now a permanent enemy.
