Is Europe Democratic by nature?

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angus is correct that the Republican Party appears to be primarily a nationalist party - or is sold as such electorally - much like the Nazi Party of Germany.  Secondarily both these right-wing nationalist parties were sold as the representatives of cultural conservatism/racism/etc.  But in both cases the 'real purpose' of these sort of parties is economic - to protect privilege and prevent any gain of power by workers.

Most reasonable observers outside any country are loath to see the rise of nationalism, as it increases the chance of war or other negative aggressive outcomes.  But those who really suffer from the success of these parties are the working class at home rather than the fearful foreigners - we know the GOP is always going to attack the american working class (this is its ongoing purpose), but only occasionally does it attack foreigners, and usually in weak countries rather than other 'first world' countries.

In any case I don't think there is anything very surprising or informative about the finding that Europeans hate the GOP.  It is certainly in their interest to oppose same.  What is interesting is that they tend to dislike and fear americans because they keep voting in such a foolish and self-destructive way - it is natural to fear the irrational and 'insane'.