The danger for Europe is not immigration

Steve Bannon was travelling around Europe as a Red Bull-speeded merchant in fear.

Behind him, he has some spectacular failures in the U.S. homeland. After rising to the sky as the boss of the right-wing populist site Breitbart and Donald Trump's chief strategist has the setbacks come one after the other. He was fired from the White house, incurring Trump's wrath, not least after the publication of the book ”Fire and Fury”, avpolletterades from Breitbart and lost their sponsors.

start Steve Bannon turn our gaze across the Atlantic. He converses with the british Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, and start working on an ”international populiströrelse”. Of the philippines, Duterte is said to be interested, as well as India's Modi and, of course, Hungary's Orbán. Bannons plane takes off, lands, takes off again.

Besides fear sells bagman Steve Bannon, a different product to their customers on both sides of the Atlantic: the wrath of god.

All get stuck in the camera of the documentary film ”The brink”, with the Swedish theatrical release on good Friday. Director Alison Klayman follows close to Bannon at his meetings with European right-wing populists; they feel quite clear that they have the wind in their sails and Bannon blows on it for the full lungs.

the French National collection, the belgian Vlaams belang, Italian Lega, and at a dinner show Kent Ekeroth up, sverigedemokraten which ultimately was considered too uncomfortable even for SD. A few sentences go all the time again, Bannon says them, the other repeats them. ”We take hold of immigration.” ”The main issue is immigration and islam.”

is not racist, declares Bannon at the same time as the representative of the AFD chasing immigrants in Germany and it turns out that his belgian interlocutors pays tribute to waffen-SS veterans and his Italian friends call it the fascist era for the nation's best time.

in Addition to the fear selling bagman Steve Bannon, a different product to their customers on both sides of the Atlantic: the wrath of god. He is a master at conveying fiendebilder. Nothing could have made him happier than when Hillary Clinton called Trumps supporters for the ”deplorables” (miserable, distressing), he repeats it time and time again, almost voluptuously.

he says, they think you are sickening racists just for you want to the country that you inherited not to turn into something completely different. ”I know that hatred and anger are good motivators.” Minimum hobbypolitiker know that the best way to unify a group is to create a clear rise of google.

There is no doubt that today Europe is under severe threat. The world order that we have taken for granted since the cold war ended, the shaking of the foundations.

with a brexit, which will greatly weaken the union, as well as one of the continent's most significant countries, the united kingdom.

the united states's role as the ultimate guarantor of peace, democracy and free trade is less obvious than it has ever been since the second world war. This at the same time as China, Russia and Iran move forward with their positions.

for the pressures and the future is uncertain. Climatic disasters, war and poverty will continue to get lots of people to turn their gaze this way.

But the solution to these truly serious problems does not lie in Steve Bannons and the other högerpopulisternas hands, they offer a fan on the smoldering fire. The worst that can happen is that we go their way, and European countries are turning away from cooperation, toward polarization, nationalism and isolation.