EU has done really well on passing big laws such as GDPR in the recent years, while the US can’t even seem to decide whether to fund their own government. Why do you think Europe is doing better than the US? One would think that since EU is more diverse it would be harder to find common ground. And there were examples of that during the Greece debt crisis. But not anymore, it seems.
Radical conservatives who are not interested in a compromise gained a lot of power in the USA. Because as long as enough people are interested in finding a compromise, you can always find one.
They are fascists. They don’t want to work within the system, they want to destroy it, so they can get absolute power in a dictatorship. Fascism. First step is to blockade it so people lose trust in the democratic system of law and are more open to them, because they propose easy solutions to complex problems.
Climate change? Shoot all foreigners.
Low wages? Also shoot all foreigners.
Crime? Shoot all… wait for it… people who look like foreigners.
Anything else? It’s the foreigners!
*insert favourite racist term for “foreigner” to make this country specific. Mexican or blacks for USA, gipsy for Romania, Turks or muslims for Germany, and so on.