QWhat do Keir Starmer, Olaf Scholz, Mette Frederiksen and Justin Trudeau, the British, German, Danish and Canadian heads of government have in common? They are all social democrats or center left. And they have all been, in the last two weeks, the target of attacks by Donald Trump or Elon Musk.
Another characteristic they share: they are not invited to President Trump's inauguration ceremony, Monday, January 20, in Washington. No wonder, protocol experts will say: traditionally, foreign heads of state or government are not invited. There will, however, be a few on Monday, but they are not of the same persuasion as these centrists relegated to another world. Because the list of foreign personalities invited by the Trump team, which we discover as the days go by, looks more and more like an informal summit of this new “reactionary international” invented in Latin America and denounced on January 6, by Emmanuel Macron.
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The expression, which the French president used about the boss of the social network The Great Continentby two Argentine researchers, to describe the current embodied by the iconoclastic president Javier Milei, also nicknamed the crazy (“the madman”) in his country. The two academics Bernabé Malacalza and Juan Gabriel Tokatlian decipher the “conspiracy diplomacy” of Milei and see the emergence, with him, of a novelty, that of a “de facto reactionary international, multifaceted, geographically dispersed and ideologically heterogeneous”.
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Eighteen months later, here we are. In 2025, without being institutionalized as the Socialist International was, the “reactionary international” takes shape – a chaotic form, like the world. Javier Milei, a libertarian who boasts of having a “infinite contempt for the State” and which Trump says is his “favorite president”was the first to announce his presence at the inauguration ceremony. He will be in good company: no official list of foreign guests has yet been published, but each new name that circulates enriches an increasingly extensive list of leaders of populist movements on the planet.
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